[Sigia-l] Accessibility guidelines in Great Britain

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Jonathan Baker-Bates
>
> Most lawyers in the UK think that if a case ever comes to court over
> this, the court would use Priority 1 as their baseline indication of
> reasonableness. If the defendant could show Priority 1 compliance
> then it would be pretty unlikely the plaintiff could show that was
> unreasonable.

WCAG's Priority 1 is about "impossible to access" and Priority 2 is
about "difficult to access".

The Disability Discrimination Act's "reasonable adjustments" is about
"disabled people might otherwise be substantially disadvantaged".

Thus, lawyers can argue that a Priority 1 conforming site that is
"difficult to access" for disabled people still puts them into a
"substantially disadvantaged" situation. As a support for being
"reasonable", they can cite WCAG's Priority 2.


Boniface