Last July I wrote about Matthew Somerville's glorious accessible Odeon site, which made their site moderately usable - not much more, we're in serious sows' ear country - for the average user.
A year on, and they bring the lawyers in, the accesible Odeon site is now no longer usable.
The original site? That's still completely unusable except with the one browser that everyone recommended you ditch for serious security reasons weeks ago (or longer).
As Matthew said in my comments section last July, when I'd queried whether the official Odeon site was legal:
... the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which states it is illegal for a provider of services to discriminate against a disabled person by providing a service at a lesser standard than to other members of the public.It seems pretty clear cut to me too :(
In the Act's code of practice, it states "An airline company provides a flight reservation and booking service to the public on its website. This is a provision of a service and is subject to the Act." Seems pretty clear cut to me. :)
Copyright law seems to be swiftly heading towards being the last resort of scoundrals and crooks, should it be repealed altogether? Never mind a war against drugs/terror/bullshit/aids etc, why not a war against corporate fuckwits?
