The Web

In the last few weeks I have received numerous approaches from people who claim to have the next big thing.

With their idea they are going to storm the web and it will soon be the hottest thing, bigger than twitter, skype, youtube etc

So what do they want from me?

Read more: When is the GPL not the GPL?

I was recommended an extension for joomla this week via twitter, so naturaly I had a look. The link provided to me was to the Joomla extensions directory where I saw that the extension was both licenced under the GPL and non-commercial.

I read the description and the reviews and it sounded promising so I hopped over to the developers web site to download it for myself and have a play.

And that is when my blood started to boil (again).

You would think that is a stupid question. Of course every web master wants their site to be usable by the largest number of users. And no web master wants to break the law, and there are many laws around the world that attempt to create an equal playing field.

Yes it is true that to create some of the cooler aspects of a web site in an accessible manner can be very hard but there is NO EXCUSE at all for a site to missing ALT tags.

When is a web site finished?