At 12:43 AM -0700 9/12/08, Yeti wrote:
I often tell my clients the reasons for accessibility and usually i get the answer "We don't have any blind customers so we don't care about them".
Statements like that demonstrate ignorance more than anything else. If they actually knew the potential the disabled market offers vs the minor expense required to make their site accessible, then they would realize just how shortsighted their business decisions are.
I heard the same type of ignorant rhetoric from a Car Rental, but they didn't realize that the blind DO rent cars -- they just also hire drivers.
This reminds me of old business practices when the environment wasn't their concern, but now everyone is on the green bus. It's a shame that the disabled have to wait for a similar revelation before business realizes there's profit in it.
You know, just because they are in business does not mean that their decisions reflect good business sense. Realize that most businesses fail -- there are reasons for that.
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