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Re: Is Accessibility mayonnaise cheese or Bread & Butter ?

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Jan 16, 2014 5:11AM

Ravindra,

While I have no opinion on the mayo & cheese vs. bread & butter debate, I
do have a series of blog posts on Selling Accessibility that may be of
interest.

http://www.karlgroves.com/category/selling-accessibility/


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Ravindra Kumar Jain
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I guess pretty much everyone in webaim knows what Accessibility Life
> Cycle / Software Development Life Cycle is.,
>
> A common problem I identified , which I am sure a lot of you too must
> have faced is that ,
>
> " There is a vast gap between what a client wants and what
> accessibility services delivers , in a lot of cases accessibility is
> perhaps nowhere in his agenda , unless it is mandatory "
>
> Few days ago I heard a very interesting thought by someone.
>
> "Accessibility Services is not one of the essential services we offer
> to our clients , it is not a show stopper. It is like Mayonnaise
> cheese as a topping over our bread and butter , we offer to our
> clients as a value added service"
>
> To our subject matter experts in webaim , I throw this question
>
> "Is Accessibility Mayonaise cheese or Bread and Butter " ?
>
> I would like to get answers straight from experience people who have
> been working in this field.for long time. Let me reframe the above
> question .
>
> "How can we convince our clients / managers / designers in a much
> better manner as to why they should implement accessibility from
> initial stages itself and not superficially " ?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ravindra Kumar Jain
>
> Accessibility Engineer
>
> No.02, Second Floor
> Sector I, 27th main
> HSR Layout
> Bangalore - 560 103
>
> Web: www.onyadigital.com
> > > >



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