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Sorry but you have made some very serious errors
.. And I can't quite make our what you are saying through the snowstorm you just raised there.
I am afraid each and every point you made is erroneous. I have created and visited many dynamic sites and do not encounter this level of bad code. The quantity of articles and adverts has nothing to do with the non-compliant code.
1. Refreshing adverts has nothing to do with the bad code and the adverts do not contribute to the bad code
2. If you built your templates properly you would not be starting with bad code, as you are now, instead of falsely claiming that others, for example those in blogs, are responsible for the bad code. Very lame excuse. The page I am writing in now, like the home page, has bad code on it. Nothing to do with external bloggers and completely within the control of your own developers.
3. If you are right and claim that non-compliant code is being added by non-developers, what in the name of Tim Berners-Lee are you doing exposing your system to allow for code to be entered unchecked? Are you begging to be hacked? That alone would make me take a developer OFF a project, not defend them!
4. Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act is a statutory requirement; i.e.: the law. I notice ZDNet wrote a leader about this in August 2005 (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002982,39215181,00.htm), yes 2005!!! but you failed to act on it.
Standards, complaint code, Accessible websites and user-cerntered design will be the touchstones for the next wave on the web and you should be at the front, not dragging your feet and blaming the bloggers.
And asking for examples of bad code from us the users smacks of Alpha-release, not final release. Hire people who know what these terms mean, employ a stringent set of tests to ensure they comply, and read and understand your own intelligence on the issue.
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