Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/05:49:34
In article <Pine DOT NXT DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970201194236 DOT 14483S-100000 AT eagle1>,
jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com writes
>So long as opendos documents and supports writing that will work
>with speech synthesizers by means of switches and doesn't require a
>mouseto work parts of it it should be able to be used by anyone and
>not risk violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.
>Failure to do this, combined with a business requiring
>the operating system to be used by all employees could potentially
>cause problems of an indirect legal nature. The first ones would be for
>the company, and the second ones would be the negative
>publicity coming out of such a case with opendos mentioned
>prominently. Anyone on this list who has read the
>A.D.A. probably knows the relevant sections.
Which is basically what I said. Even after my initial state, I was
thinking about how to best set up the option configuration.
I'm not famuliar with the A.D.A (as I'm in the UK), but I'm all for it
as I'm sure it's probably quite sensible. Of course, and submissions I
made to Caldera for OpenDOS would no doubt be subject to American law
before THEY could let it out.
But, as I've said, it'll be optional and won't change a thing unless you
want it to.
DrDebug
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Ian 'DrDebug' Day | Email: Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Dark Black Software Ltd. | WWW: http://www.darkblak.demon.co.uk
The Home of MrDebug | Dark Knight BBS & Fax: +44 (0)1480 471465
(THE Clipper debugger) | Tel: +44 (0)1480 403104
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Turnpike evaluation. For information, see http://www.turnpike.com/
- Raw text -