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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Sep 8, 2014 1:37PM

Actually, let me bring up something that might be good to discuss for everyone's benefit while we are on this topic.

So, let's say you want to practice incremental accessibility--that is you want to practice accessibility in a way where you get people to improve the accessibility of their site or application over a period of time.

So, you are talking to Dean the developer and you convince him to increase the accessibility of his site. Later, you work with him again and show him how he can improve his site more. You keep repeating this pattern of incremental accessibility. Then one day, Dean asks you "How much accessibility is enough?"

What are good ways to engage with developers and designers to build the accessibility of their digital content incrementally that helps them answer the question "how much is enough?" Is there a point where you tell them they don't have to do anything else? When we are sheperding people on the journey, where are we wanting to take them to?