Re:Winn-Dixie ordered to update website for the blind
by Idontagree on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:02AM
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It worked once in medievalish Italy (not sure how you classify the period going from ~0-1800 A.D.). All houses had to be a certain color, for instance. I think it looked kinda cool, but obviously choice is often considered the greatest of all goods.
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Re:Winn-Dixie ordered to update website for the blind
by wyager on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:17AM
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Good point. Of course, again, we run into the practical difference between physical zoning restrictions and internet "zoning" restrictions.
The real world, being equipped with a distance metric, has this messy problem where you are sometimes forced to be close to other people. I feel like this gives us (collectively) a bit of license to make demands of how nearby people use their physical property. On the other hand, there's no distance metric on the internet, and I'm not (in any sense) forced to live next to the winn-Dixie website.
Re:Winn-Dixie ordered to update website for the blind
by matthewmacleod on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:25AM
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Specifically the decision in this case was that Winn-Dixie's website is heavily-integrated enough into their physical store locations enough that it's covered by the ADA.