On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:52:59 +0900, Jordi Bunster <jordi / bunster.org> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Francis Hwang wrote:
> 
> > I personally never know how much to worry about people using textual
> > browsers anyway--and the site that I program for my day job doesn't
> > degrade gracefully either--so perhaps the point is fairly academic.
> 
> You're right, it is fairly academic, maybe except for the fact that if
> it works OK in a text browser, you're halfway through on the job of
> making it usable to the blind or near blind folks.
> 
> I realize that they are not part of everyone's target audience. What
> you'd be surprised is how many people think that their target audience
> doesn't cover the blind, when it fact by not caring about them they
> lose a fair chunk of business.
> 
> --
>         Jordi
> 
> 

I've told that it's also a requirement for certain large customers-
e.g. the government. So if they fall in your customer base, you have
to think about it.

-- 
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg