Charles Joseph Clark PC CC AOE (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian businessman, writer, and politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. (wikipedia)
In any event, accessibility is almost as poorly-known now as it was 2.5 years ago when I started work on my book. That's because most 'Web' developers aren't making Web sites at all, since they don't have a clue what valid HTML and CSS means.
I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.
I think it is probably just a matter of there being more bears and more people in bear range than ever before.
I believed from the outset it was not going to be capable, given its narrow base, of being successful in the country,
I am not convinced my suggested methods are actually as usable as I think they are.
We live in a nice city. I can't take all the credit here.
Our evidence leads us to believe at this time that this was an isolated incident,
I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.
Even if you set aside the need for valid code, it is ridiculously easy to find non-government sites that flunk even the simplest and most canonical requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, like using alt texts for images.
We had a lot of big busts. It's to the credit of the people calling in.