- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:25:55 -0400
- To: W3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 02:11 PM 10/26/1999 -0700, Scott Luebking wrote: >Hi, >Suppose that a company buys JAWS for one blind employee who works >well on the intranet with it. The company hires a second blind employee >who only uses lynx and refuses to use JAWS. Is the intranet >accessible or not? >Scott > Seems to me that if the new employee "refuses" to use what is available rather than is "unable" to use it, the employer would be in a good position to "refuse" further employment to that employee. The same would happen if a non-disabled employee "refused" to use IE instead of Netscape, Windows instead of Lynx, etc. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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