American Bar Association - 1 click patents

[Adam Shostack]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:12:20PM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
| On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Adam Shostack wrote:
| 
| >So, this web page doesn't work without javascript.  I find that
| >somewhat ironic, because you'd think that the ABA would be aware of
| >the Americans With Disabilities act, which requires a reasonable
| >accomodation; in this case that accomodation would be one less line of 
| >html (the meta-equiv refresh line)
| 
| Sorry, but I don't understand.  What disability prevents you 
| from using Javascript?  

All the text-to-speech tools I've seen, which are very useful to the
blind, tend to barf when given javascript generated pages.  Not my
actual problem, but I think that theres a tremendous opportunity to
create an infrastructure which helps people with various problems, and 
I hate seeing bad design screw it up.

| I don't enable javascript for reasons having nothing to do with 
| any disability.
| 
| 				Ray
| 

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