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From: Ryan Hemphill
Date: Apr 10, 2012 12:14PM

Thanks for bringing up the issue around employment - I can definitely
appreciate this as a potential example where screen reader detection would
be a problem. As I mentioned, it is almost impossible to avoid SR
detection, but I get why this is a concern.

Ryan



On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Will Grignon < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> As a blind user, I would think that the issue of forced identification can
> be quite important in the employment arena, where disabled applicants, who
> are required to do things like fill out online applications might want to
> prevent potential employers from knowing they are disabled. Since, The
> decision when/if to disclose is a very personal one and giving potential
> employers the ability to determine which applicants are using AT might give
> rise to fears that these employers are (either consciously or subliminally)
> using this capability to "weed out" disabled candidates.
>
> Although, I suppose that potential employers can counter that, while the
> ADA
> does not require a disabled applicant to disclose a disability at the
> application stage (or even the interview stage) of the employment process,
> disabled applicants are required to notify potential employers of a
> disability if that disabled applicant is requesting reasonable
> accommodations in order to complete the application process.
>
> However, I can imagine that such disabled applicants could make a case that
> AT is a passive technological accommodation that does not require express
> disclosure of a disability to the employer and therefore should not
> incorporate the employer's ability to identify applicants who use such AT
> functionality.
>
> An interesting question would arise if the potential employer's web-based
> employment processes either malfunction or do not contain adequately
> accessible functionality, and the disabled applicant is then forced to
> contact the potential employer and, compelled against her private wishes,
> identify herself as disabled and in need of reasonable accommodation AT...
>
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