keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

[jesse]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
> A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid
> mousing.  Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software used by
> his branch of the civil service didn't bother with keyboard access for
> many features.

In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law?

[1] http://www.section508.gov/