Hence my sense of morbid curiosity'd like to see what'd happen if they were challenged, since newspapers're likely to get more hits than universities, local councils and the like - which do tend to follow the DDA as a matter of course.

I would say that it wouldn't and shouldn't hold up in court. That's from a technical point of view. Of course disabled people have the right to view websites too, but since it's so tricky to implement, I don't think it should be enforced until the web standards (that's an actual set of standards, rather than just a phrase) improve further.

If a newspaper gets done then you suddenly have this whole wide open what should be/what shouldn't be accessibilised debate.

The problem with implementing accessability is with dynamically generated pages, i.e. most of the web, it can be a real git to put it and make work with every possibly page you might have, so making it compulsory would be a huge headache for web developers, and we get enough headaches with making pages work in all the browsers - no more needed ta!


Just to clarify what I mean by accessibility.. being able to make the text larger without breaking the design, making the page a logical flow so audio readers can read it properly, having different colour schemes (white on black, black on white) for people with bad sight.

Like I said: purely morbid curiosity, since these things can be a little unpredictable.