I worked in a consulting company, which estimated accessability requirements to increase web development costs by 10%. It's easy to imagine some big successfull company paying it up like it's peanuts, but it's another hurdle for companies living on the edge. I was in another company that had done a lot of work on accessability. But in the end, they ran out of money and released their software extremely buggy, which contributed to their product failure and bankruptcy.
Non-bugginess is also accessability, but I don't see a law saying that you can't release unfinished software. So how would accessability be anything more than all the others unimplemented issues stuck in the backlog?
There should be zero legal requirement to do so - I just meant to say there is a lot of low hanging accessibility fruit that doesn't require a large amount of time and money to implement that will give everyone using a computer a better experience.
Non-bugginess is also accessability, but I don't see a law saying that you can't release unfinished software. So how would accessability be anything more than all the others unimplemented issues stuck in the backlog?