ken_b - 4:57 pm on Sep 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

The warnings were there and well known.

The warnings might have been there, but as for being "well known" I doubt that very much. They might have been know of by a select group of professional activists and designers, but neither of those two groups account for the bulk of sites on the web today.

As others have mentioned the reader software probably needs to be addressed as well as the eites themselves.

And considering how many sites are built with software like Dreamweaver, Front Page, etc, maybe those need to be included as well so that they include inaccessabilty alerts as a site is being built.