Re: Benefits of Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility

I disagree with this approach. There is a need to state direct benefit of eval process and not attribute benefits of Web accessibility to eval process.
The eval process is a quality assurance process. 
The eval process can give greater credibility to conformance claims made by content creators  as it typically involves both eval tools and  human testers. Testing by independent and knowledgeable individuals can also be relied upon by a court.    
 Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer 
Deque Systems,11180  Sunrise Valley Drive, 
4th Floor, Reston VA 20191
Tel: 703-225-0380 Extension 105 
E-mail: sailesh.panchang@deque.com
Fax: 703-225-0387
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----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chuck Letourneau 
  To: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:27 PM
  Subject: Benefits of Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility



  For  "[Draft] Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" 
  [http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/eval/]
  I volunteered to draft a short paragraph under the heading:
  2. Benefits of Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility

  Here is my first attempt, for discussion:

  Evaluating a Web site for accessibility gives a practical path to reaping 
  all the benefits - technical, legal, social and economic - that are 
  described in detail in
  "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization" 
  [http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/].  An evaluation may highlight 
  accessibility problems with a site and learning how and why to fix those 
  problems (and then fixing them) will deliver those benefits.

  Regards,
  Chuck Letourneau
  Starling Access Services