it’s very difficult to persuade those who use spacer gifs, nested tabbles and endless font tags to start writing valid markup because their site will most likely still work and look like the way they want it to.

When they think of accessibility, they don’t think of the web…they think of handy cap parking spots. The 508 means nothing mainly because it doesn’t apply to anyone…really.

It’s almost like telling everyone to start obeying the speed limit which is seen moreover as a guideline rather than an actual law.

The only real convincing factor will be the day that all windows users download the new version Internet Explorer and see that font tags and table layout doesn’t work.

Or could you imagine if a browser wouldn’t display a page if it didn’t validate, lol. It would make web developers think twice about this standards thing…but that would be going a little overboard.