March 4, 2005
A report on Digital Media Europe gives a snapshot of the UK accessibility market and comes to the conclusion that there are just a few years’ worth of accessibility consultancy unless people/business start to get clobbered for failing DDA compliance matters:
The consultancy also reports that accessibility spending driven by legal concerns, with the researchers predicting the accessibility market has a limited shelf life of three years or so and that the accessibility market will be threatened if there are no high-profile prosecutions when companies fail to comply with the DDA. The analysts reckon that ongoing growth will be determined by litigations or the lack of them.