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Seriously, this is awesome. A website is a “place of public accommodation,” so just like a Domino’s restaurant, it must be accessible to people with disabilities.
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This week, the 9th circuit court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to websites & mobile applications.
Next week, many software teams will add “Accessibility check” to the top of their backlogs
https://www.lflegal.com/2019/01/dominos-ninth-circuit/ …
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Unfortunately, the ADA does not cover colorblindness, even though provisions to accommodate those who are colorblind are very inexpensive, and the genetic condition is very common.
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WCAG 2.0 specifically prohibits color being the only indicator of information. Companies with competent legal counsel won’t cherrypick WCAG guidelines - instead they’ll seek certification. So this ruling means things are likely to improve for colorblind folks as well.
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Which doesn’t help when things produced for print are simply put online in pdf form without concern for their incompatibility with WCAG. For example, NYC’s flood zone maps. Not that flood zone information is important or anything.
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Totally. More work to do here for sure.
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I work as a barista, and one of our regulars is fairly blind. The only major issue they encounter is paying because you can't enlarge the
@Square POS screen or enable much larger text, at least not in any simple manner. We obvi don't mind talking them through it, but it's a bit -
2/ awkward to straight up ask them how much they want to tip us, plus it takes some agency away from them. This is also the case with a lot of elderly customers who don't have the sharpest eyesight, I hear quite a few complaints about the faintness of the text. I was always
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3/ given good reasons to think about a11y when learning development, but there's a big difference between thinking about what poor semantic tags will do for your PageRank score vs seeing the embarrassment UI design with poor a11y considerations causes.
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When you'd rather get sued than address something you could take care for about 1 hour's worth of attorney fees.
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I'm still incredibly surprised that anyone is surprised by this. But then, I worked for a large company that knew it could be successfully sued for ADA violations (Microsoft) in the late 90s...
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What is the law regarding advertising? For example I use voice assistant screen reader on my Samsung phone. To navigate lines on a website you swipe left or right. If there is an advertisement in the middle of the Web page I then have to swipe Through the lines in characters of
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The advertisement and depending on how it is coded might have to swipe for each individual character used in a border. A sighted person can look past and advertisement but I have to swipe sometimes more than 50 × 2 be able to read Only a few lines of actual text
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