Cost Of Web Accessibility

But doesn't:

• #2 ignores the workflow issues
• #2 ignores the documented costs of providing and maintaining metadata (an ALT tag is metadata)
• #3 ignores the real world difficulties of, say, deploying CSS

MYTH #2: Accessible Web authoring is expensive and time-consuming

MYTH #3: Web accessibility is too difficult for the average web designer

http://aware.hwg.org/why/myths.html#m2

Wouldn't it be better to be open about the costs in order to gain acceptance? We don't pretend that safety in cars, providing fire safety in building, etc. is cheap.

Typical Problems

It is acknowledged that
this is not from WAI

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