[gui-talk] off-topic: amazon.com caves in

[Hoffman, Allen]

Just to wrap up a bit.

1.  Someone wrote that you'll never get the last one approved.
Referring to copyrights being based in part on equal access.  I'm not so
sure, but it's worth using as a starting position.

2.  someone wrote that this is an educational and industry gap, noting
that a book would help resolve it.  This is partially true, but the
industry didn't know how to provide safe automobiles either until they
were forced to increase safety, and also gas mileage.  Unless folks are
told that some things are not negotiable, they will be.

While accessibility is a culture change, the gain must be greater than
the pain, and sometimes government has to impose the pain to achieve the
gain.  Its not lack of education, its lack of interest.  amazon.com is
just allowing their equipment to be transparent regarding copyrights so
I really don't have a problem with that--its the basis in copyrights law
that is the problem.  The whole concept that the government should
extend force of law in protection of intellectual property for some who
don't also provide equal access seems ridiculous on the surface of it to
me.  If people demanded that IT products produce accessible outputs the
IT industry would sit up and pay more notice.