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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jun 5, 2006 6:10AM

> Karl Groves

> Have any of the people currently debating this topic actually observed
> disabled users using e-mail?
>
> I'm sorry, but this "debate" you reference really sounds like
> a lot of the
> debates in the Accessibility community, where there are a lot
> of people
> arguing back & forth about it who are basing their arguments solely on
> conjecture, without ever having done any actual observation
> of disabled users.

Those were my feelings, exactly - particularly because Roberto's original article doesn't really mention any real users of AT etc having problems, but merely a "this is what would most likely happen, so I had this genius idea..."

I'd nonetheless be interested if maybe, just maybe, there's some truth behind it all that we've all missed so far...

P
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