[5 January 2009]

Maybe it was an hallucination, or just an after-effect of seeing the article on T. V. Raman in the Sunday New York Times yesterday. But my evil twin Enrique showed up this evening.

“I’ve written a song,” he said. “You have, have you?” I said, guardedly. “Want to hear it?” he asked. “I doubt it.” But there was no stopping him.

[Before you read this, you may need to be reminded that “WAI” (pronounced “way”) is the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative. And “section 508” refers to the section of the U.S. legal code that requires at least some Web sites to be accessible to the disabled. There are analogous requirements in many civilized countries, but the girl in this song appears to be an American.]

I hate to encourage Enrique in his song-writing career, and especially I hate to encourage further songs using Beatles tunes (if you didn’t recognize “Baby, you can drive my car” here, then you are a lot younger than I am), but well, you know, that girl has got a point.

If your site is not accessible, you really should fix it.

My management asks me to point out that we do not warrant that making your Web site more accessible will actually get you more dates. But it’s still the right thing to do.