>Of course the aim should always be to make media as accessible as
> possible but if this suggestion/threat is to be taken seriously, it can
> only be another nail in the Internet coffin.
>
I don't think the second part of this argument follows from the first. Surely the issue here, as with other forms of access, is to try to build accessibility in at the start (so far as reasonably practicable) which takes a bit of planning. The alternative is that when organisations and firms realise it's an issue they try to add it on afterwards which is more cumbersome and costly.What's a reasonable adjustment will depend on what the website's for and whose it is, which presumably will impact on the viability of any discrimination claim.
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