Re: Privacy implications of automatic alternative selection (Re: Acessibility of <audio> and <video>) from Philip TAYLOR on 2008-09-11 (wai-xtech@w3.org from September 2008)

From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:19:15 +0100
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
CC: hsivonen@iki.fi, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, singer@apple.com
Message-ID: <48C96123.6060904@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Unless there are legal implications here, I suspect
we are being over-sensitive : when a potential
undergraduate writes to the enrollment office of
his preferred university and asks for a braille
copy of the prospectus, the probability is quite
high that he is blind or partially-sighted.  But
we do not seek to enable him to disguise this
fact by sending out our prospectuses in all
possible formats (print, large print, braille,
audio, etc) to every applicant.

Philip TAYLOR

Received on Thursday, 11 September 2008 18:20:10 UTC