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From: L Snider
Date: Apr 28, 2020 3:20PM

Just adding this lawsuit...it isn't the same thing, but this airline
got fined for doing two websites, one 'accessible' and the other
wasn't (I am paraphrasing). I am not a lawyer, and this may be
different, but the concept of two different sites is the same.

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/dot7418

This takes us back to the late 90s/early 2000s, when there was the
text only version and the 'regular' website...never did it,
recommended against separate but equal in terms of websites.

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 5:04 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Reaffirming everything Peter said below about "separate but equal." It's not ethical and it doesn't work.
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> From the practical viewpoint, why in the world would you want to keep the content up to date in two websites, rather than in just one?
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> Who wants to double their workload? And quadruple their chances of failing?
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> Back when I was young a hundred years ago, it was called "separate but equal" and related to race-based education. Rather soundly discredited because it turned out not to end up very equal. This is why I would join my colleagues skeptical of the whole idea of accessible versions. We need to include the disabled rather than give them some diluted content to keep them from bothering us.
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> We can give the disabled a tabular view of a chart, for example, only to find that sighted visitors like that too. I can say the same about a longdesc I encountered once, which clarified things for me as a sighted user. Key is that we may give the disabled some additional resources, but let's avoid different versions.
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> Cheers,
> Peter Shikli
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