I've become a great fan of HIPAA since being dragged kicking and screaming into the corporate world, because "we need to devote some time to protecting our users' privacy, because not doing that would be irresponsible" does not move The Powers That Be, but "we need to devote some time to protecting our users' privacy because HIPAA" does, The Powers That Be not caring about all about doing things right if it costs them money but caring quite a bit about avoiding legal troubles. I like regulations that force The Powers That Be to let me do things closer to right. Without them I have to lie a lot... I hated it when I worked at a nonprofit, when we only had to pay attention to it when it turned out to proscribe something strictly inferior to what we planned to do.
According to elfassy, once you use this it's not longer compliant. Let's just build it out fully compliant without fax bandaids
It is truly a blunt tool for good. I've been known to rant rather a lot about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the twisted and ridiculous ways in which it is used. But the fact of the matter is, it's done an awful lot to allow disabled individuals to lead more normal, more comfortable lives. HIPAA is similar - it's a broad set of guidelines that permit people to sue over privacy which is more than the Constitution allows.
Had a boss who got to have lunch with some of the people who wrote the ADA. They copped to the fact that their legislation was deliberately vague on the presumption that caselaw would refine the regs. In plain English, "We expect a lot of people to be sued over their interpretations of our wording, and we see that as a good thing."
Laws aren't designed that way but in engineering world 2% might instead be a number that could guarantee sufficient access 95% of the time. Also according to Google 1/10 of all Americans have a severe disability so 2% is actually an underrepresented portion if you don't account for other factors
I think the worst I've ever gotten from the ADA has been needing to give screen readers something to say for visualizations and other features that are only useful if you can see, rather than just letting them ignore things that are useless to their users. I'm sure everyone using a screenreader just moves on without a second thought, but I always felt like drawing their attention to things they couldn't use was a little too much like taunting them.