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Re: The cost of accessibility

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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Oct 5, 2010 8:00AM

Even if you start out with trained people, there will still be costs--if nothing else, there will be costs in continued education.

The fact is accessibility changes over time. The best practice techniques we use today are different from what we used 4 years ago.

For me, there are two types of accessibility expense. One is the expense incurred by a project team to make a specific web site or application accessible. The other expense is ensuring the environment the project team is using and that the users are working in makes it possible to create accessible sites effectively and use accessible sites effectively.

Although maybe I should separate the development environment from the user environment.