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From: Bevi Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Nov 19, 2010 10:09AM

Jared wrote:
" No. Nor should they. It's the responsibility of assistive technology to
properly handle the most simple of markup. And it's our responsibility to
demand that they do. "

I agree. Both sides have their responsibilities.
But I wonder if lack of funding for research and development (R & D) is
preventing our A.T. developers from putting more power behind their software
and hardware.
Would federal grants help fund these efforts and get better products into
the hands of our A.T. users?

Our U.S. federal government gives major defense contractors billions of
dollars every year to design faster fighter jets and bigger bombs. I wonder
if we could divert a couple million of those dollars to our A.T. companies
who would create products that helped people rather than killed them.

Oh wait...I'm sorry.

There I go again, talking politics on a list.
My apologies, but I do live and work in Washington, D.C. so politics comes
with my job!

--Bevi Chagnon

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