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On Oct 8, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Joseph Selbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > "might"? > 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! > Only if solving it is cheaper than avoiding the issue. > Joseph Selbie > Founder, CEO Tristream > Web Application Design > http://www.tristream.com > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
