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Absolutely not. There is a huge difference between something like plumbing where you do one or a few sets of well regulated activities and building infrastructu
by obviouslygreen 14y ago
Absolutely not. There is a huge difference between something like plumbing where you do one or a few sets of well regulated activities and building infrastructure for businesses across many industries. Web programmers have a lot to be aware of just to do their own work, suggesting they should be responsible for their employers' or clients' legal obligations is completely unreasonable.
- rpedroso 14y agoWho should be responsible then? If you shift the burden onto small business owners, that seems pretty unreasonable to me. Imagine a small business owner asking their web developers if they used alt or title attributes properly? Absurd, right? I can't name a single plumbing instrument other than a plunger, and I don't have to because there is a division of labor. If my toilet gets backed up and it's not as simple as making sure the ball in the tank didn't get jammed, I call a plumber.
- scarmig 14y agoAnd that's why businesses don't have to comply with any security or privacy laws on the Internets. Innovation! Disruption!
- Sanddancer 14y agoIf I hire a general contractor, I expect them to be abreast of the law enough as to when to bring in the specialists. Shifting the responsibility onto the person contracting to manage all of this is both unreasonable and unacceptable.
- SolidT 14y agohttp://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist Look at this list, most of it you should be doing as a developer anyways. Edit: I fail to see how this is any different than making sure your webpages are not vulnerable to SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF...etc. Surely you protect your websites against those, and write code accordingly, right?