Would you assume that the person who wrote the following (IM) believes that "web" (as in internet) is an acronym? Is that why he capitalizes it?
Posted by
mara
Aug 2 '10, 07:16
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It's hard enough to get a usable WEB-site designed and implemented, and then to foist "accessibility" requirements on top of this might well make it impossible for an institution to want to use the WEB for maximum access to services, and institutional information.
ADA generally increases the cost of brick-and-mortar buildings by 15% (which means billions and billions of dollars of increased cost to comply with Federal Rules that may not actually help anyone but the builders). It would not be hard to see the cost of WEB-based information distribution increase by 50+% in order to meet arbitrary mandates about "accessibility". Experimentation would also be quashed, since any group that felt it was being "denied" by a new WEB-service that does not meet its expectations could generate a Federal complaint, or lawsuit.
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