- From: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:03:34 -0000
- To: "Jesper Tverskov" <jesper.tverskov@mail.tele.dk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Quote. If you specify a list of your preferred languages in the browser, this more or less sensitive > information is send to all web sites you visit. Let us say you specify > Russian, Hebrew and French. Together with other characteristics of your > browser, such information is enough to clearly identify you. You can be > traced, not as an anonymous surfer but as a very unique user profile all > over the Internet. Jesper, Who cares? There is no anonymous factor on the internet anyway, your ISP knows exactly who you are and where you go but who checks??!! People have better things to do with time than playing the voyeur. There is a danger of getting lost in the technicalities and forgetting the original objective. Just how far does one go before the line is drawn? The real challenge is to design a website for the quadriplegic who is also deaf, blind and computer illiterate. This may not be a politically correct statement but it does highlight the problem of how far do you go!!??!! so I make no apologies for making it There is a pain/gain factor in a trade off for accessibility. Well sometimes anyway. Besides how many visually challenged Hebrew/Russian/French speakers do you know? The odds are if they have that combination of languages they may have a smattering of English as well. smiles Paul Davis
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