- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:26:44 -0800
- To: "Ineke van der Maat" <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 10:12 PM -0800 12/16/01, Ineke van der Maat wrote: >When I exclude one group of people (here disabled people) from >information I have, I consider that as not being democratic..and also >discriminatory.. . It's discriminatory, but not undemocratic. >The Media Carta (see www.pccharter.net) says the right to communicate must >be a fundamental human right in the constitutions of all free nations.. There's a right to communicate. There's not a right to information necessarily. And a "free nation" does not necessarily mean the same thing as a "democratic" one. There's no principle of "democracy" which says everyone has equal rights to information. It may be a basic human right, but human rights don't equal democracy. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201
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