Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible

Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by mlang23 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:26AM (#21189647)

I guess 99.9% are. However, it is pretty hard to order a pizza or buy your weekly load of groceries with a CLI tool :-) If you want to interact with the rest of the world, you will likely need to use the web...

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by comex on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:02PM (#21195846)

> However, it is pretty hard to order a pizza [..] with a CLI tool :-)

You’d be surprised. ;) Here’s a classic from 2004:

https://www.slashdot.org/story/45782

(That specific tool probably no longer works, but Domino’s still has an API for ordering pizza… although apparently the new one isn’t officially supported.)

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by jdnenej on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:25AM (#21189982)

Have you tried Emacs?

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by coldtea on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:25AM (#21190275)

Emacs is a GUI tool using curses (or similar). That it runs on a terminal doesn't make it a cli app in any of the regular sense...

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by Filligree on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:07AM (#21192440)

Huh. This makes me wonder how many blind people prefer using ed.

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by mlang23 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:53AM (#21190414)

Since 23 years now :-)

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Re:Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if web... by downtide on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:43AM (#21189752)

I often use w3m.

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