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

Jesse Vincent jesse at fsck.com
Thu Oct 22 14:14:59 BST 2009




On Wed 21.Oct'09 at 17:44:58 +0100, James Laver wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM, jesse <jesse at fsck.com> wrote:
> >
> > In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law?
> >
> > [1] http://www.section508.gov/
> >
> 
> We have the disability discrimination act which makes it similarly
> illegal. It also makes it illegal to develop a website that isn't
> properly accessible, but we've yet to see any prosecutions.
> 
> Does your §508 have provisions for non-discrimination against healthy
> people (making concessions for disabled people available to healthy
> people?) ? That's what I'm using in the UK to justify my chip and
> signature card.

Sadly, I have no idea.

Best,
Jesse
> 
> --James
> 



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