- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 17:49:24 -0500
- To: Glenda Watson Hyatt <Glenda@eaglecom.bc.ca>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, "disabilityaccess@onelist.com" <disacc@onelist.com>
glenda, with the legal/justice/legislative system such as it is here, several things come into play. We are about to go to a more conservative presedidency most likely and that usually means tightening the laws concerning special rights and priviliges to the non rich. the second is that there could be more hearings in other venues on this. If this hearing returns the finding that the ada does not apply to the internet, two things will happen in addition to more hearings. other parts of the ada will or can be called into question and large companies out to make a buck while spending as little as possible will thumb their noses at access issues. This is such a good question. How much does it cost? That is not really the issue. The real issue is that they never like it when father government steps in and tells them how to run their businesses even if it will benefit them and everyone else in the long run unless what they are being told will cost them less or bring them more without costing them anything. I hope this helps. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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