- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:30:28 +0100
- To: "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Where is the evidence that anyone other than a few privacy freaks and > Slashdot-reading Linux nerds turn JavaScript off? How many of them are > disabled? If 100% of the people for whom javascript is inaccessible are able-bodied (for whatever threshold of that term you wish to use) does that make it accessible? As a developer I care about whether people can use what I produce, and if they can't then the reason why is frankly none of my business except in so far as knowledge of it might help me to fix the problem. Now as a matter of civil rights and social justice it is important to ensure that developers do not, by intent or by neglect, discriminate against people with disabilities. However when a developer wants to avoid something that causes an accessibility problem it doesn't matter who has that accessibility problem, and acting as if it does benefits neither the developer, the users, nor the civil rights campaigns.
Received on Tuesday, 19 August 2003 07:26:07 UTC