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Re: Is Accessibility mayonnaise cheese or Bread & Butter ?

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Jan 16, 2014 10:52AM

if the company was here i would say to them that's fine until some
one wants to use your service or tool and then sues you because
they can't

On 1/16/14, Sailesh Panchang < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Ravindra,
> Basically people i.e. top management, developers, project managers
> need to be educated about accessibility. Here is a start:
> WAI Resources from WAI-EOWG at
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/
> Specifically:
>
> Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization:
> Overview
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/Overview
>
> How People with Disabilities Use the Web: Overview
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Sailesh Panchang
>
>
> On 1/16/14, Karl Groves < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> 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
>>> >>> >>> >>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Karl Groves
>> www.karlgroves.com
>> @karlgroves
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/karlgroves
>> Phone: +1 410.541.6829
>> >> >> >>
> > > >


--
Lucia Greco
Web Access Analyst
IST-Campus Technology Services
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu