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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jan 11, 2006 5:00AM

> Malcolm Wotton

> Patrick H. Lauke said
>
> > Why do web developers have
> > to shoulder the burden once again?
>
> Because browser developers do not care about your website and
> never will,

Did I say *my* website? I'm advocating a feature that will work on *all* sites, and that's the point...

> Perhaps you should ask why we want accessibility, to be
> brutally honest for
> websites I run it is not because I have a significant user
> population that
> need the features, it is because I want to be able to say to
> sponsors it is
> accessible.

Same thing applied to browsers: being able to say "the most user friendly browser".

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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
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Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
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