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Wouldn't the review panel benefit from hearing from access consultants who were there 20 years ago and to hear how/why these standards have developed?

It's always so easy to deem accessibility standards as 'red tape'. I haven't found a single colleague or friend in the industry who blames accessibility for the lack of growth. We need to look at this in context - the radical welfare reforms will place thousands more disabled people into the job market and require them to be more geographically mobile. BB Inside Out this week showed these young disabled people flat hunting and the stock was non-existent or unsuitably designed (at 11mins): http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nwc3x/Inside_Out_London_12_11_2012/

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