RE: [UACCESS-L] sharing a blog post (

["Robert Carnegie" <Robert.Carnegie@seemis.gov.uk>]

While I try to find my Word Press password to comment there:

1. Is it a mistake to /have/ an "accessibility industry" (which is
evidently about the same size as the piano tuning industry), a ghetto,
instead of pushing for accessibility to be a standard feature that no
electronic product or web site would consider omitting?  I mean with it
being legally compulsory and all?  Is it "instead of"?

What is the proper role of the accessibility industry - I suppose that
where, say, a web developer wants to make their work accessible, but
still does not know specifically how to meet all of the needs of the
one-armed colour blind Serbian wheelchair user with an inner ear problem
who has just e-mailed him, we do know what may be done?  (I say "we" as
if I spent more of my time on this than I do.  I still want to keep in
touch, though.)

Or, for an actual example, some years ago the Adobe Flash software was
claimed to have plenty of features with which to build an accessible
software product, which presumably are still there, but the BBC's
proprietary online media player seems to have missed the boat there,
according to recent editions of their own "In Touch" radio programme for
people who are blind or visually impaired - which isn't my own need -
although I don't know a lot about the technicalities of it.

2. Off the point but while I am still exercised about it: a British
Member of Parliament, who apparently is quite a little character, calls
for disabled job seekers to be exempted from minimum wage, presumably on
the grounds that the least amount that you can currently legally pay
somebody is more than they're worth.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13809620>
I am contemplating writing to him sarcastically to ask for a wheelchair
user to be supplied to prop a door open during working hours, since
although minimum wage would be too much to pay for that, I'm sure they
will be glad to be doing something useful at all.  But maybe I and now
you have already wasted too much of our lives on this incult.



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