- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 19:05:05 -0800
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@ACM.org>
- Cc: jeffrey pledger <jpledger@mindspring.com>, "Waddell, Cynthia" <cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us>, David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>, Claude Sweet <sweetent@home.com>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 07:05 PM 11/27/1999 , Leonard R. Kasday wrote: >Actually, I wasn't making any assumptions about the number of Deaf or hard of hearing users on the internet, although I was responding to someone who said that it was "perhaps 1%". (It can be tricky counting the greaterthan signs to figure out who said what). You're no doubt right that 1% is an underestimate though: e.g. according to the 1992 census >http://codi.buffalo.edu/graph_based/.demographics/.awd/AWD/AWD.html >5.6% of the population 15 and older has difficulty "hearing normal conversation". That was me, but my point was not to play numbers games -- my argument wouldn't have changed if I'd bothered to look up the numbers and filled in "5.6" where I wrote "1" before. As Len says: >But the main point is that even if the number had been as small as 1%, businesses would be obligated to accommodate them under ADA unless it was an "undue burden". -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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