> What I think is much more likely to happen is that -- should the  
> courts in
> fact decree that equal access must be granted to certain types of  
> publically
> accessible websites, such as Target -- competition will increase  
> among the
> readers for market share and they will begin to innovate and  
> improve rapidly
> in response to the opportunity to increase their revenue.

"Unless that market is bigger than $100M USD, I seriously doubt that.  
I'd be surprised if that market was bigger than $10M USD."

So you think that even if Target, Walmart, K-Mart, JC Penny, Amazon, Ebay,
Google, Yahoo, Cisco, MS, Apple, Adobe, Bank of America and thousands of
other publically accessed websites were required to improve their
accessibility, that the money available to the reader companies wouldn't
increase?

Walmart alone might put $100M a year into developing a reader if the
alternative is a class action suit.

We are talking about companies whose combined revenue is in the *trillions*
of dollars. You can bet some money is going to be thrown at the problem to
solve it!

Joseph Selbie
Founder, CEO Tristream
Web Application Design
http://www.tristream.com

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