- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:05:16 +0000
- To: Demonpenta2@aol.com, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Sunday 16 December 2001 16:32, Demonpenta2@aol.com wrote: | In a message dated 12/16/01 8:33:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, | | lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru writes: | > I also have concern that Deaf or Blind people just can't pay same money | > as Normal (people who can hear and see) people. Usually those people | > have no money to spend at all - as they live on governmental pension, | > which is quite | > small. | > So, it's some kind of people which you unlikely will have as customers. | > Why someone should spend money to please those people? There is no | > commercial | > reason for that. Only *moral*. | | Vadim, | | You bring up some very good points, thast I think may | unfortunately be only SLIGHTLY unique to Eastern Europe/Russia. Not really. yes, people here are rather poor, but much more reach than, say, in Africa. I know that it's now not very popular nowdays to speak about Arabian world and muslims - but there are over 1 billion people living there... Plus, India with 700 mil. people (most of them - very poor) and China (over 1 billion). So I would say situation in _US_ is _SIGNIFICANTLY_ different from other countires. | | One of the things we seem to forget here is a characteristic | of the market, one that DEFINES it in business: The disabled are usually | incredibly poor. In the US, saying that most people with disabilities | (under 65) survive basically because of SSI (For the jobs most people with | disabilities can get, the salary scale is not exactly high, assuming they | can get a job, ADA be damned.) with minimal income beyond that. very well said. I can only add that I have seen how *poor* pensioneers (old people) in Bulgaria - small country which has borders with Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Macedonia. I was working there for more than one year, and I know what I am speaking about. Many old people there just can't pay for _heating_ in winter time, and they can afford to buy for food just bread and potatoes. So, when you speak about web accessibility for people with disabilities - I just recall those people (without disabilities) and understand that they do not have computer or internet at all. If they have food today - they just try do not think about tomorrow. And they are dieing every day, just because of these poor living conditions. | | John -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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