Is accessible web authoring an expensive and time-consuming process?
While it may be costly to convert a poorly designed website into an accessible website, there is virtually no extra cost to authoring an accessible website from the outset. There can be small costs associated with providing alternate content (such as for Java applets), but, in general, accessible pages will pay for themselves through more satisfied users. Accessible web pages will often be easier and cheaper to maintain, since they will usually feature valid, structure-based HTML linked to an external style sheet that handles the presentation.
