- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:32:15 -0700
- To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 02:37 AM, Jon Hanna wrote: > For example CC/PP would enable a company to prevent blind people from > getting past the first stage of a job application process while giving > the > company a plausible claim that they didn't know the applicant was > blind. Sorry, hit "send" too early on the last post. Do you agree that there's a similar "danger" in autodetection of screenreaders via Flash or an IE ActiveX plug-in? I can't see how this potential problem is unique to CC/PP -- especially when we're talking about existing systems that have a simple "yes/no" checkbox for screenreader use. Note that CC/PP doesn't actually send "this guy is using a screenreader," but rather a composite of his capabilities based on a number of origins, including user abilities, hardware, software, assistive technologies, network properties, and proxies. If you wanted to use CC/PP profiles to exclude blind people you _can_, but you'd have to explicitly be doing so via specialized programming, and that will leave a non-plausibly-deniable electronic "paper trail" that can be subpoenaed. This is a level of active discrimination that is much higher than the normal types of discrimination currently faced by most blind people. (What's more, it assumes that a company would even bother to do this.) --Kynn > -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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