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Re: No decision from the Appeals court

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From: michael.brockington
Date: Oct 1, 2004 7:02AM

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From: darrel.austin [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: 30 September 2004 16:01

> No need to worry about that. Our new oppressive copyright legislation is
based on
> heavy-handed corporate influence. They are interested in Money. I doubt
they have
> much interest in actually catering to consumers, which is what
accessibility is all about. ;o)

Darrel,
How much money could be made if the accessibility 'just happened' to mean
that your browser/AT worked MUCH better than anyone elses. For example, we
all know that Access Keys can interfere with application functions - get the
right ones mandated by law and your competitiors need to do a re-write, while
you can claim to have the only compatible product.
On a similar topic, what happesn if the US decides to mandate the use of the
A key for a particular function, and the EU picks Z?
Accessibility means money to all of us - only a few will gain from it, but to
most companies it means expenditure. And to some companies money comes before
legalities - I understand it is commonplace for a company to do a
cost/benefit expenditure when it finds a problem, ie will it cost more to fix
the problem, or pay out a couple of law suits? What is important is to
ensure that the professionals are the ones to make the decisions, so that
sites are built to standard in the first place.


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