[Irl-dean] WCAG 2.0

[Mark Magennis]

> if web designers
> wish to promote their website as fully accessible to all 
> users

Unfortunately, I don't think this is what *most* web designers want to
do. I don't think that this is, or will become, a major issue for web
designers. It's not that they don't care about it at all or don't
realise the befits of it, but that out of the large number of issues and
motivators which they have to take into account and balance in their
design work, full accessibility does not come at the top of the pile.

I feel more comfortable focusing on work that will ensure that *most*
web designers get things *mostly* accessible by understanding the issues
and knowing about techniques which give them obvious benefits at an
affordable cost and do not restrict them unduly (according to their own
definition of that word).

This reminds me a little of the pro-accessibility argument that says "no
business can afford to ignore the needs of up to 20% of its potential
customers". Unfortunately, this is just not true. Most businesses can
afford to and routinely do ignore 20% or more of their customers in
order to exploit the other 80% to the max.

If 80% or 90% of web designers got 80% or 90% of the way to the holy
grail of full accessibility, I think that would be something amazing.

All the best,
Mark