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From: Roger Hudson
Date: Sep 12, 2015 8:01PM

At the risk of pissing a few people off, I find all this IAAP stuff is starting to get a little tiring.

It is hard to develop any process of certification, and this is particularly the case when it has to take in to account a diverse range of linguistic, geographic, technical, financial and cognitive issues. I suspect that unless the IAAP process in much more transparent (thanks Karl) and is affordable to all those who might be interested, it runs the risk of just being a self-serving promotional tool.

Finally, in my opinion two of the most important things that are necessary when it comes to developing or testing accessible content are empathy and commonsense, and sadly neither of these are easy to teach.

Roger