[bryanrasmussen]

One time I was interviewing at a pretty big media company for online publications in the Scandinavian region - has a bunch of magazines and the rights to distribute a lot of international magazines in the region. Probably their biggest magazines were home improvement interior design type stuff (so now people familiar can pinpoint what company it was)

Anyway, the guy in charge of tech was pretty young, early 20s, and at some point in selling myself I talked up my familiarity with wai and wcag and first off he needed explaining what they were and then he said "we don't have any disabled users" which I mean, if there is any company that would have an aging customer base with all that implies it was this company. I basically got a little hot headed and told him he was wrong (I was still polite though), anyway I didn't get the job (not necessarily for that reason bu t it did ruin the mood as it were)

Several years later I was consulting at a major Television company in Denmark (the one you would think of if you thought major Television company in Denmark) and he had recently been made the head of the development there.

Meandering anecdote done - change is supposed to come from the head of the beast, and it ain't coming.