RE: Undue Burden and AOL

Yes.

Cynthia D. Waddell

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-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard R. Kasday [mailto:kasday@acm.org]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 3:03 PM
To: Waddell, Cynthia; 'Kynn Bartlett'; David Poehlman
Cc: Claude Sweet; WAI Interest Group Emailing List
Subject: RE: Undue Burden and AOL


Let me see if I understand Cynthia's comments on Kynn's opinion that

>As a businessman, sure, I'd like to have my website reach everyone.
>But if it costs me $10,000 to create the site, but would cost me
>an extra $50,000 to make sure it's available to deaf users (because
>I have multiple multimedia files that need synchronized captioning),
>I'm not going to pay 500% more just so that a very small audience
>(perhaps 1%) can access it.


If we're talking about a small business with total profits of $30,000 a
year, so that spending the extra 50,000 would bankrupt the company, then as
I understand it it's undue burden.

However, if we're talking about a company with profits in the Billions per
year, and this is merely an annual expense, it's no longer an undue burden,
right?

Len
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