Francesco,
It seems like we are making the world "less free" by forcing companies/corporations/individuals to conform to "equality" laws.
at the risk of sounding terribly cynical, corporations in particular are by their very nature selfish. They exist to generate shareholder profit. To the extent they are permitted by law, they will by and large pollute, gouge their customers, and trample of people's rights.
So we have limits on corporations behavior, to ensure that society isn't a total disaster.
Many people on this list have spent many frustrating year dealing with the fact that clients, or employers really don't care about issues like accessibility. Hey, they generally don't even care about usability, notwithstanding that can effect your bottom line overnight.
Isn't this just another form of conformity and regulation?
Just like standards in television, radio, cinema, telecommunications, food production, pollution control...
Sure.
But the fact you can listen to the same CD on every player you stick it in, but can barely visit the same site with two different browsers should tell us that standards and conformity are not always bad things.
Right now, everyone on the web is working to implement standard based browsers except one. Who is it and why?
John
oh, and before anyone accuses me of being a raving communist, I run a business, am a director of two, and try to be as ethical as possible in all my business dealings. Its public corporations that I am referring to here.
j
John Allsopp
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