- From: jeffrey pledger <jpledger@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:52:20 -0500
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>, "Waddell, Cynthia" <cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us>, "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Cc: Claude Sweet <sweetent@home.com>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Leonard, Your analysis is correct except for one small detail. There are alot more deaf/hard of hearing users on the internet than you propose in your analysis. What might be deemed as a compromise solution to the problem you bring up is a phased approach to making one's site completely accessible. For if you could put the arguement for not making your multi-media files accessible, why wouldn't the same arguement work for mot making the web site accessible for the blind/visually impairred? Just something to ponder when you want to talk about accessibility over the web. Jeffrey Pledger President, Able Channel At 06:02 PM 11/19/99 -0500, Leonard R. Kasday wrote: >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 >------- >Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. >Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and >Department of Electrical Engineering > >Temple University >423 Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 >kasday@acm.org > >(215) 204-2247 (voice) >(800) 750-7428 (TTY) > >
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