- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:10:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> a person cannot change or cannot change easily. I am aware this is a > more sweeping definition than disability-obsessed advocates > particularly like, but just as you can't stop being deaf when you I think the reason that people like the narrow definition is that it is more commercially acceptable. Companies don't like catering for what they consider unprofitable markets (leaving aside the validity of that judgement) but, providing everyone else is in the same position, they are more comfortable in supporting people that they can imagine being themselves in later life of their children than people in general. The people here running a consultancy or addressing accessibility on behalf of their employers have to take account of this to remain in business/employed; you can possibly see some of this in the person who recently reported that they had had to double subscribe to allow them to express their own opinions.
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