Graham Sutherland / Polynomialpaywalled standards need to fuck off straight into the sea. truly one of the worst types of rent-seeking.
halcy 
@gsuberland and lest you even think about making an alternative, of course we patented everything
@halcy one that I always feel pretty ambivalent about is the Harding Flash Pattern Analyser for photosensitive epilepsy risk mitigation in broadcast media. the requirements are open and fairly simple, but to actually check your media you have to buy or rent this stupidly expensive box made by one company who owns the patents. someone made a freeware tool that can risk-check your video files but it's less rigorous and it isn't considered sufficiently rigorous for actual broadcast.
@halcy and like, on the one hand the main people who get shafted by this are advertisers, who I don't give a fuck about. but on the other hand it feels shit to have a disability-accommodating tool be stuck behind a fairly hefty paywall.