On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Mark Rejhon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If vendors decide to implement video/audio *and* RTT in the same
> software --
> > then a main accessibility concern is vendors that enable audio/video
> support
> > by default, but block the ability to initiate an RTT conversation (i.e.
> > non-compliance with Section 5 of XEP-0301).
> > ...That is, a situation of preventing senders from having any
> opportunity to
> > initiate RTT, and preventing recipients from being able to be informed
> that
> > an incoming RTT attempt is occuring.    That is the one that becomes the
> > discriminatory issue.
>
> This seems like a bizarre situation to imagine happening - you're
> describing an application that implements RTT but doesn't allow its
> users to use it, as far as I can see. It seems unlikely that anyone
> would go to this effort.
>

You missed the message where a vendor told me they would put it in a
Privacy preference setting, and have it off by default.   (while still
enabling an audio/video button by default)   So this is a real issue!
This accessibility concern needs to be clarified.

It is a REAL issue.

Mark Rejhon

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