Hi Paul and Shawn. Technically, there is already a tax credit for accessibility. I haven't looked it up in some time since I retired in 2005, but this credit is extensive for architectual barrier removal. I haven't researched it lately as I said, but it could be amended, with all that entails, to encompass computer accessibility. For some companies, especially for those who only pay attention to the bottom line, it have to be a big credit, and it would be even better, I think for us if the law could be amended in such a way that disabilities like ours, which require more accessilility work, would get a company more credit. I think make sure of that, you find some companies doing a little tinkering around with small changes and calling it accessibility to get the credit. Also, if we ran Congress, we'd want to make it retroactive say, for the last three years. Hey, we'd want to be fair to Apple after all who got on the stick before just about everybody else. Tax laws and credits have been made retroactive before. Oh, yes, and e'd want our credit to apply to corporations as well as to 1040 filers. That way, small developers could apply for it.
Regards, Gigi i think this might work better than a tax imposed on each individual, considering the number of devices and companies involved in administering much tax. However, an accessibility credit is already on the books and the administration for it is basically already in place. Regards, Gigi Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: > Hello Sean. This is a great idea and I would be interested in discussing it > further. I had thought that we could impose an accessibility tax to be levied > on everyone who buys a piece of electronic equipment. The money could be put > into a fund and grants be given to companies that agree to develop accessible > stuff to defray their R&D costs. Your idea is much more proactive. > I just wonder how to make this happen?On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:05 AM, Sean > Murphy wrote: > >> All. >> >> I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this up >> before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it as an >> idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be actually >> adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to discuss. >> >> >> A we all know Business only cares about the bottom line. Since this is the >> situation. A solution to our problems is to become investors. So how can we >> as a group become investors? Being individual investor will not have the >> same impact as if we do it as a group. Let me put up some figures. >> >> If 10 million people in the USA put $10.00 into a investment fund per month. >> This would give the group $100000000.00 per month or 1.2 billion a year. If >> you extend this to a international level and got another 20 million people. >> Then the yearly amount grows to 3.6 billion dollars a year. >> Having this type of yearly funds for investing into companies. Their >> attitudes towards accessibility or what I would prefer to say Universal >> design will quickly change. Since this type of money could place the fund >> managers who ever they are on boards of companies due to amount of shares >> held by the investment fund. >> >> Basically what I have outlined is a different approach of changing peoples >> attitude by playing the same game. I believe there is at least 10 million or >> more people world wide that could afford $10.00 per month. Of course there >> are those who cannot. But they would benefit anyway. Before you shoot the >> idea down. Stop and think about if we had as a community this type of money. >> What changes could be done. The fund could be open to anyone who wants to >> help. It could even be open to all disabilities. That makes the numbers >> bigger and making the pool of investment larger. Investing into proactive >> companies like Apple would ensure they continue doing there good job. >> Informing companies like publishers that we will invest x million per month >> over the next x months if I believe would quickly change their attitude. >> >> So take off the blinkers everyone and see what this idea could do to change >> the world of technology? >> >> Ideas or comments are more then welcomed. >> >> >> Sean >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
