Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/04/07 17:09

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
>>> http://target.com/careers/ - Completely broken. All I see is:
>>> [javascript_disabled]
>> From: Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net>
>> Well, you *could* enable Javascript.
>
> Nope, it's not possible. Neither lynx nor any other browser
> supports JavaScript over VT100 dialup.
>
>> One principle that seems to be attached to the accessibility
>> guidelines is that authors are permitted to take existing
>> technology into consideration, ...
>
> By that argument, since iPhone is the latest way to get access to
> the InterNet, companies would be perfectly reasonable to change
> their job-ad listings so that the *only* way they are accessible is
> via iPhone, anyone without iPhone need not apply.

Not really. It isn't just a question of whether the technology exists,
but whether it has attained wide use or availability. It's more like
saying that phone companies don't have to support communications via
telephones manufactured in the 1930s.

> If the duties of the job are to take orders via iPhone, and the
> company is so small they can't afford to provide iPhones for their
> employees doing this kind of work, every employee must provide
> his/her own iPhone before starting work, then maybe it would be
> reasonable to deny employment to anyone not already owning an
> iPhone. But in that case, why not offer the option of taking the
> cost of the iPhone ($300) out of the first month's wages? And
> instead of not allowing non-iPhone-owners to even see the job ads,
> why not say that all jobs require owning iPhones?
>
> Do you honestly believe that every job at Toys {backR} Us requires
> the employee to own their own personal computer with JavaScript in
> order to perform the job?

No, but then, as has been pointed out by others in this thread, people
who don't have a computer can go to the store to apply.

In any event, I see that your issue is now not about disability at all,
which is what I'd originally thought, but about the fact of not owning a
computer.

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