On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009, sunil wrote: > > > > Let me assure you that > > mandating WCAG will go a long way in ensuring rapid adoption of > > FOSS tool for producing and consuming web-content. > > In the case of accessibility we are already dealing with a thoroughly > disadvantaged minority with extremely limited resources and opportunities. > I > do not see how removing references to FLOSS can be beneficial, except by > relying on charity (doles / handouts / subsidy). >
Just fyi, depending on how the word 'ability' is defined, the minority you refer to could be about 30% of India's population. That is substantially the same or more than the communities often referred to as 'majorities' (and I won't digress by listing the most - or should that be least? - obvious ones). As far as the charity etc goes, even the most rabid economist will admit that distribution is one of the major problems in India, not quantum, as far as money is concerned. But yes, much of the problem with representation (a voice) relates to the lack of appropriate communication aids, or (equally, the flip side of the coin) the proliferation (and therefore apparently cheap) inappropriate communication aids. Hence the need for standards that bend over backward, if you will, to avoid being encumbered by or with proprietary and exclusive or discriminatory interests. -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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