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Re: thoughts from Jim Thatcher re the DoJ ANPRM

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From: Denis Boudreau
Date: Jan 21, 2011 3:39PM

Hello all,

On 2011-01-21, at 4:34 PM, Jared Smith wrote:

> But others can be very difficult and expensive, especially for
> existing sites.

That's very easy to solve. Have the requirements apply only to new websites, not existing ones. Every site is meant to either die or go into redesign at one point or another. Sooner or later, we'd catch them all. Conformance level AA is totally achievable. Video, if anything, might be the only place where there's a real challenge and even then, if there's a real problem, solutions will emerge. Either way, accessibility wins.

/Denis