> Academic bias, dodgy commercially orientated researh and a nasty list
> moderators on the Web Standards Group.
>
> In research about internet site accessibility, an Australian University
> group selling courses for $495 a head for one day training sessions,
> WANAU have been getting away with a gross misrepresentation based on
> dodgy research claiming that 98%% of Australian sites are inaccessible.
>
> New unfunded research by
hereticpress.com reported that 64%% of
> Australian University sites are accessible. A WANAU supporter with an
> incompatible religious view of science suggested that as WANAU did not
> commission the research they are entitled to ignore the results. On this
> reasoning Galileo's research should be ignored and the Church can retain
> the view that the sun orbits the earth, because they did not commission
> the research.
>
> A 600Kb file, hundreds of unpaid hours work, ignored by many so called
> Australian academics and comdemned by the Web Standards Group as not ...
