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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sep 25, 2017 6:57PM

The business benefits of accessibility are hard to measure (15% of the
population has some type of a disability, but there are no studies, as
far as I know, that try to objectively put a number on how much
improving accessibility impacts demand, business cases are one thing
that the accessibility sector has not been able to develop).
The legal case is trong, at least in the U.S. If you google blogs on
ADA and web accessibility lawsuits (or check websites like
www.lflegal.com and Karl Groves blog on accessibility litigation) you
will see the huge increase in accessibility related lawsuits in recent
years (I believe over 400 lawsuits have been filed this year, double
that of last year).
If the company has employees with disabilities that's another angle on
their obligations.

You can mention a lot of situations where accessibility and responsive
design intersect (e.g. color contrast helps people viewing content on
mobile screens in less than ideal lighting, or that 85% of FAcebook
video is watched with sound turned off).

But, honestly, the legal risk and convincing people that accessibility
is the right thing to do, pointing out there is a lot of people out
there who benefit (even if we have not figurd out how to translate
that into profits) is the only strategy I can think of.

Cheers




On 9/25/17, <EMAIL REMOVED> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Tim,
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> Thanks for the information, I honestly didn't look at the archives.
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