In a ideal world yes. But the screen readers are businesses just like any other. They have limited resources, budgets and markets. Of course, if mandatory compliance does happen, their position and importance will change and, in fact, the most forward moving reader company will make the most money, Supply, demand, competition - they may not be the ideal way to bring about change - but they can be very effective.
Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design http://www.tristream.com This is very disconcerting. If the goal is to enable disabled people to access the content, then shouldn't they be making the screen reader companies keep up with modern technology and the rest of the world instead of making companies stay back behind at the lagging capabilities of the screen readers? On Oct 6, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Joseph Selbie wrote: If the courts decide in favor of mandatory compliance, the trade off companies may have to make is that they design middle of the road sites to cater to the needs of the disabled, rather than be able to really pay attention to the needs and wants of the majority of their users. Cheers! Todd Zaki Warfel President, Design Researcher Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. ---------------------------------- Contact Info Voice: (215) 825-7423 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://toddwarfel.com ---------------------------------- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
