Dorene 

Let me bring in a dose of reality into the discussion that wasn't an issue 
a year or more back.
The economy is suffering; companies, in many instances, are on life 
support.
Folks in the real world are worried about having a job, whether they can 
pay their mortgages, the declining value of their investments, and the 
falling apart of stability around them.
It may be tough for some on this list to accept this notion:  but for most 
in the real world, having food on the table takes priority to whether a 
given site is accessible (whatever that term means anyway for, as has been 
shown over and over, many sites are very usable even if they aren't 
totally acessible).
I am not suggesting that accessability isn't important but, in the grand 
scheme of things, it is going to play second fiddle until stability 
returns and prosperity resumes.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble; but a company who is perhaps lettings its 
employees go, seeing declining sales, and other signs of a recessionary 
economy isn't in a strong position to allocate resources to some things.
Accessibility is for a time of economic prosperity; but that era, for the 
time being, is on memory lane and our expectations must be reshaped to 
meet current priorities. 
The reality is that the web is exceedingly usable, and there are a lot of 
businesses doing their best to make their sites as usable as possible for 
the majority of their current and potential customers -- that makes good 
business sense.  That said, litigation these days isn't going to get much 
sympathy on these issues beyound the diehard members of given national 
organizations.










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