Re: accessibility review (was Re: I strongly urge...)

John Foliot:
> Content Protection and Digital Rights Management are realities today,
> philosophical stances aside, and my goal as an Accessibility SME and member
> of the a11yTF is to ensure that persons with disabilities have the same
> level of support as "able-bodied" users do with regard to being able to
> interact with these technologies - I leave the judgment of the "right or
> wrong" around DRM to the individual consumer and content producer: those
> that are opposed to it are free to not deploy it on their content, and to
> use legitimate market forces to change the minds of those that do. Believing
> however that stopping the evolution of Content Protection inside of the W3C
> will be the death of these technologies is foolhardy at a minimum, and naïve
> at the least: those entities who have a business requirement for this type
> of technology will simply move their work elsewhere and continue to work on
> it - perhaps in forums less open to listening to all perspectives -
> something that accessibility practitioners are only too familiar with if
> history is to be believed. 
> 
> For that reason alone, I support the continued work around these
> technologies within the W3C, using the truism better the devil you know,
> than the one you don't (not that I am for one minute suggesting the W3C is a
> devil).

For those who are not aware here: John has been one of the main EME
proponents within the HTML WG.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:32:03 UTC