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From: Malcolm Wotton
Date: Jan 11, 2006 7:00AM

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,
they only care about market share. The driver for browser developers is
market share, features are only a factor in as much as it drives that.
Anecdotally it seems tabbed browsing (a la Firefox) is such a feature, I
don't believe font resizing will be.

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.

So for me any design features I can add that increase the value of the site
are valid, it just so happens that in the current climate accessibility is
valuable. Also for features like the icons, the appearance of accessibility
is more important than actual accessibility.

I know that sounds brutalm and I do believe in accessibility and I am
putting accessibility features in, but I do want to stress this has a
commercial element not just an altruistic.

Malcolm