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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/accessibility-the-future-and-why-dominos-matters/
The US Supreme Court last week formally declined to weigh in on an argument that the Americans with Disabilities Act should not apply to websites and digital storefronts, leaving intact a lower ruling finding that the ADA does, indeed, apply to digital space. Internet and Web users with disabilities, as well as advocates for accessible design, are breathing a sigh of relief.
[...] The case the Court declined to hear, Domino's v Robles, stemmed from a 2016 lawsuit. Guillermo Robles, a blind California resident who uses screen readers to access the Internet, tried to place an order through Domino's mobile app. Neither the app nor Domino's website proved usable by a screen reader, and Robles eventually sued the company, arguing the site's inaccessibility violated his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The section of the ADA at question is Title III, which says, in part, that you can't discriminate against an individual on the basis of disability "in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases, or operates a place of public accommodation."
[...] About 61 million US adults, roughly one in four, live with some kind of disability, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The point of the ADA is to prevent discrimination against a quarter of the population and to codify the need for reasonable accommodations.
[...] "Here's what's shocking about Domino's: like Target [in 2008], just fixing the problem costs a great deal less than suing. So they were suing for the right to discriminate," Quesenbery told Ars.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 22 2019, @01:17PM (6 children)
Because they haven't accommodated the blind so they can drive a car.
Give me a fucking break... Domino's has a phone number you can call to order pizza. Instead, some ADA troll decides to sue them because the website isn't in braille. Those trolls drive by shops and sue them for non-ADA compliance without even entering the shop.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 22 2019, @01:59PM (4 children)
They could accommodate the blind. If they really wanted to. The first step would be for their lazy web designer to stop stalling and come up with a good color scheme that works well in braille.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 22 2019, @03:15PM (3 children)
You're missing the point. Pick up a smart phone and say "Call Domino's pizza" and order a pizza. Instead, some asshat decides he wants to use something that his disability restricts him from doing, so he sues because it was more inconvenient than simply calling.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 22 2019, @05:19PM (2 children)
You're missing the joke about a braille color scheme for the web.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 22 2019, @06:29PM
That's for blind people who are colorblind. It's a new disability.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 23 2019, @11:34AM
That joke was fricking awesome. So stealing it the next time someone brings up WCAG :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 23 2019, @12:00AM
And what if you are in a place where you can't just yak on the phone? The fact of the matter is that it is really easy to make websites accessible. Just label what things are and proper tags instead of divs everywhere with automatically generated names and ids. Just use descriptive links ("order pizza [soylentnews.org]" not "to blah, blah, click here [soylentnews.org]) and <label> for inputs. Use alt on your images, proper contrasts, proper flow. It really is just the basics, but people want things fast and cheap and could give to shits about others.