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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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:02PM (2 children)
Americans with Disabilities. They are like, ENTITLED to participate in society. We read about so many entitlements that are pretty much nonsense, but this is one I can get behind. No one likes to feel useless, or to be helpless. So, dude is blind? That doesn't, in and of itself, make him helpless. Or useless. He may very well be both, but that's a whole 'nother story. Computers can easily do text to voice. Websites can make it possible, without an awful lot of work. Standards, people - USE THEM!! Stop being jackasses, and stop being smug that you can roll out an idiotic abortion of a web page, then blame the blind man because he can't read your shite.
As a builder, I modified buildings to enable handicapped people to access them. I see it everywhere - shopping malls, court houses, even the jail house. Churches, schools, private homes, there really aren't many places that a handicapped person can't make a stink over, if he can't access it.
So, fix your POS website if it isn't accessible to a handicapped person. It's not going to cost you thousands of dollars, after all. Just hire someone to do it right the first time.
(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Wednesday October 23 2019, @11:38AM (1 child)
Probably cheaper just to have two sites with a redirect if screen reader or similar is detected.
I have no idea how this is going to help someone fill in a form while blind but I am open to learning new things.
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 23 2019, @07:06PM
If you are halfway technical, try it yourself. You can use the built-in readers on Windows, Mac or iOS. It is good enough for most purposes. Or you can use Orca on Linux and https://www.nvaccess.org/ [nvaccess.org] on Windows as free alternatives that many people use.