Feb 22, 2006 Most people are not recognizing the possibilities of an accessible website. They do
however see the benefits of usability. This is a start, because accessibility IS usability.
Usability IS NOT accessibility.
When developing a website, the customer would demand it to be usable but will give
no instructions whether or not it to be accessible. The customer cannot see the benefits
of accessibility, because if you sell bicycles you probably haven’t got any blind
or handicapped customers. A blind man is not blind to the issue of accessibility on
the web or anywhere else I presume. The project manager is locked down by deadlines
and probably will give accessibility a very low priority.
As
I wrote before, it is not that hard to make websites accessible, but maybe you
have to sell accessibility as usability, because usability is understandable by almost
anyone. This might give you the little extra time it takes to make the website accessible
and raise the overall quality of the website.
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