- From: Pete Urwin <pu@crombieanderson.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:57:33 +0100
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I am a web designer/ developer with 3/4 years commercial experience for a mid sized design agency. This is my first posting to what seems to be a really useful list. For what it's worth, I find that it's only our larger 'public' clients, particularly Universities and Local Councils, that are aware of accessibility issues, probably because law requires them to have accessible web sites. Most of our smaller clients, such as property developers and product manufacturers are still not aware of even the basic issues, and it is therefore left to us to try to raise their awareness and sell the idea of having an accessible product to them. I agree with Andrew Mcfarland in that most clients do want accessible web sites once they are made aware of the issues involved. Given that most of our clients have never heard of W3C and accessibility, how can low levels of awareness be raised? Pete Urwin
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