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by xwowsersx 980 days ago
I'm sorry but a) no it is not the same thing as being deaf or blind. A currently Internet-less person can at some point have Internet. In fact, it is probably the case that most people who don't have Internet at any particular moment, will have Internet at some later point. Deaf and blind people do not typically become able to hear or sighted suddenly. b) The idea that not specifically creating a solution for someone in a particular condition is the same as actively excluding them, as you seem to imply by your axiological "it's not right" judgment, is incorrect. By your logic, making any tool for anything at all, so long as it has any dependency whatsoever, excludes all people who don't have those prerequisites, which, again according to you, "is not right". This would mean that even a tool which worked offline "wouldn't be right" since it excluded people without computers, smartphones, etc.
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Your points are well made and well articulated, but I nevertheless disagree. Of course access to the internet is not the same as deafness/blindness, but I never said it was. its similar in that is an accessibility issue.

There are obviously accommodations and functionalities that are unreasonable to implant when it comes to accommodating accessibility issues. But offline functionality is not one of them, not for time tracking.