Re:My philosophy (Score 1)

How far do we take your philosophy? Deny small minority religious groups the ability to celebrate their holiday because they are a tiny minority (sorry, we won't accommodate Johnny taking his test on another day because he will be church then; sorry, you can't take a day off for from work for this holiday, you're fired)? How about a liberal reverse that came up in San Francisco: require that all employers offer domestic partnership benefits (including Catholic charities, a minority among employers in SF)?

In the minority religion case, we go with a general policy that applies to all. We allow any test to be reschedule. Employers give employees a collection of vacation days that they can apply where they wish - such as to a religious holiday. In the San Francisco case, they redefined domestic partner to not be based on a sexual relationship -> one family member caring for another could claim a "domestic partnership" which would then be recognized by all.

The principle here is to define a larger framework into which these "special cases" apply. As for the web - as has been cited throughout this thread, general good web design means it is good for searchability and security and multi-platform/multi-browser and mobile browsers and... Do don't make "special for the disabled" web pages (or "do extra work for the disabled"); make good web pages that meet lots of needs. Better still, make the tools do the "right thing"[tm] as much as possible, so in fact it isn't much extra work at all.

Now, as to whether this should be forced on a web site, and by whom, and in what way... that is a separate discussion. See my reply to that at: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=526280&cid=23114106