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From: Greg Gamble
Date: Jun 10, 2013 3:30PM

Maybe I'm naive, but can't you fudge the truth on what you say a working site is? Just tell a customer that the site is incomplete until accessible, so new sites will take longer and use more resources then ones that were created ten years ago. Most are clueless on what it takes to create a good site ... so don't say why ... blame the new browsers coming out or something similar.

To me it used to be anything that passed a validator was a finished site ... black and white, pass or fail. It's now become much more than that. There's a lot of gray around the edges nowadays, so it's not just about validating code, but validating the accessibility of the site too. So wouldn’t a completed site be an accessible one too?