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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
>
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