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> So there are legal standards for what exactly blind is, and certificates.

In the USA, people are not yet required to provide identification when signing up for "free" services. There are real concerns around privacy.

A certification of blindness is exactly one of those privacy concerns, being a medical issue. You think it would be a good idea to give that private information to the criminal organizations of big tech?

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These are already users that want to let the company know that they are blind in order to qualify for special treatment. In that case showing the certificate doesn't seem to be much of an extra privacy issue to me.

Accessibility isn't special treatment! As I said before I would never provide proof of identity to simply access a website.

> Accessibility isn't special treatment!

Perhaps not in all cases, but it can be. This article is literally about special treatment for accessibility purposes.

It's of course debatable if this is how things should be, but that's another discussion.

Nah, it's the companies that's demanding proof over what's basically sane treatment rather than users wanting to surrender their medical info.

I would have a privacy concern with it, and then your going to force everyone to do verification. Age verification isn't even passed here in the US, although a lot of companies do it. They wanted to make it law over the last couple years.

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