[Gllug] Argos site

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:15, Stephen Harker wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 12:07, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > On Wed 31 Jul, Jackson, Harry made the following spurious claims:
> > > I wonder will anyone ever take these companies to court for
> > > discriminating against the poor. It seems like a reasonable case to me.
> > > Here we have 10000 plaintiffs taking these 400 companies to court for
> > > discrimination against their ability to afford licensing costs for
> > > software.
> >
> > A blind man in Sydney sued IBM (a founding member of the "Bobby" web
> > accessibility initiative, no less!) and SOCOG for him not being able
> > to use the Sydney Olympics site.  It was an insanely complicated site
> > and they ended up spending millions fixing it.
> 
> Just wondering, but would a blind person be able to sue the movie industry for 
> making films that are not accessible to them? 
For 'blind' read 'partially sighted'
I would guess that there are loads of people in the world who aren't
blind, but have very bad vision.
I would guess that they might use Lynx with really big fonts to access
web pages.
Truly blind people, I think, use Lynx or suchlike  with text-to-speech
synthesizers.


Could a deaf person sue the 
> music industry for making albums that are not accessible to deaf people?
True enough. But I believe deaf people go to clubs and 'hear' the music
as vibrations in their feet?




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