Re: Accessibility vs. consideration X: how to handle

I do not think that that is our job.

We are writing guidelines for how to be accessible.

Legal minds must work out how to use that information in legislation. Part
of that process will be definition of formula for defining terms  such as
"due burden"


Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: Marti <marti@agassa.com>
To: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
<w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility vs. consideration X: how to handle


>It seems like what we are reaching for here is something along the lines of
>the "undue burden" clause in the ADA.  The ADA defines undue burden in
terms
>of a % of cost and allows some exceptions for things like historic sites.
>Can we classify the "consideration X" issues into a few broad categories
>like:
>     undue risk to intellectual property
>     more than x% of the total cost of the website
>     .......
>marti
>
>
>

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