> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:10, chris@martiantechnologies.com wrote:
> > with the net improvement to the customer being zero.
> 
> I forgot to say: "unless you're blind/vision-impaired/motor-impaired
> etc".

Our customers are not, and [to address a point you raised in a previous post] standards compliant code does not always render faster than non standards compliant code. Hence, the net improvement to the customer is zero. You can put a gun to my head and make me produce accessible code, but you can't make me care about it one way or the other. Anything I produce myself I'll make cross-browser, accessible and I'll make it validate to W3C standards. This gives me an internal glow, and increases my knowledge base. Anything I produce at work I have to make a business case for. Converting existing systems doesn't have a business case in the short term, and that's all that management usually care about.

> Read this - http://www.happycog.com/lectures/access/ - then try again.

"Section 508 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities."
--http://section508.gov/

Bearing in mind I'm not even in the country that produced Section 508 let alone anything to do with its federal authorities, this has no relevance to me at all :)

Regards

Chris Marsh