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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by daxorid on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @01:18PM (#20225176)
Indeed. My business is currently being targeted by these ambulance-chasers, but we are not a college with a well-staffed IT department; we are an ecommerce business with a single front-end developer on staff.

Annoying, to say the least.

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Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by joebubna on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:15PM (#20226398)
First off, his eCommerce business might be some custom software app, not an online store or informational website. So being "knee deep in frameworks" might be necessary for his business.

That said, the ADA is all about accommodating disabled persons within reason. Depending on the scope and functionality of his software, fully supporting such with a single developer on staff MIGHT be an undue burden - it all depends on the specifics of the situation and we don't know his.

Notice the usage of "Undue Burden" from the official ADA documentation below.

FROM: https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/smallbusiness/smallbusprimer201...

"The rules are also flexible for communicating effectively with customers who are blind or have low vision. For example, a restaurant can put its menu on an audio cassette or a waiter can read it to a patron. A sales clerk can find items and read their labels. In more complex transactions where a significant amount of printed information is involved, providing alternate formats will be necessary, unless doing so is an undue burden."

"It is a business's responsibility to provide a sign language, oral interpreter, or VRI service unless doing so in a particular situation would result in an undue burden, which means significant difficulty or expense. A business's overall resources determine (rather than a comparison to the fees paid by the customer needing the interpreter) what constitutes an undue burden."

Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by austincheney on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:24PM (#20226495)
ADA does not define the technical specifics of conformance for websites. It defers to WCAG for such which is well defined, achievable, and reasonable.
Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by joenot443 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:51PM (#20226121)
I would say it's more similar to distributing menus without braille translations.

It's also very possibly their developer is woefully overworked, and what may amount to 'minimal effort' for you, could be outside the scope of what they have the time to accomplish.

Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by austincheney on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:21PM (#20226466)
How is that not discrimination?
Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by will4274 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:38PM (#20225955)
> It’s no different than a restaurant server delivering shitty service to a black family because they stereotyped that people with kids and black people tip less.

Come on now. Stereotyping is an affirmative action, failing to consider accessibility is passive / apathy. It's comparable to not installing a handicap ramp for your restaurant.

Re:Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defend... by austincheney on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:05PM (#20226299)
It’s an active decision to disregard accessibility as a business liability, also known as negligence, which is different than an accident.