- From: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:09:35 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
David, I'd be curious to know why you are so against legal action to compell improved web accessibility? While I certainly don't think it is the first approach, in many cases the force of law is the best method to compel action. I've watched the web grow more and more inaccessible as time goes by. This probably isn't a popular opinion but all the guidelines, standards and such seem to have little impact on the web's development. Show me an e-commerce site that's been hurt by inaccessibility. Obviously these sorts of sites will be hard to find because who knows how many transactions have been lost when someone found a transaction too difficult to complete. But I don't see too many e-commerce vendors running around saying, "Gee, if I incorporate accessibility I'll make more money."
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