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Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us by goatforce5 on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:11AM (#9588360)
If i'm building an MVP I might not even fully support all of the popular browsers, let alone the correct standards for screen readers, and my page layout will probably break if you increase the font size. Similarly my website is probably only in one language.

(I'm not sure what my point is... I'm just thinking out loud.)

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Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us by tickit on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:41AM (#9588566)
The Internet's a bit different, it's more of a virtual wild west... at least it used to be. If your service has a real world presence and you cut corners then you're more likely to bother someone - especially if you want to be ubiquitous.
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Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us by gohrt on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:34AM (#9588926)
The ADA applies to the Internet.
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Re:Uber: Disability Laws Don’t Apply to Us by Lawtonfogle on Friday May 22, 2015 @03:35PM (#9590493)
It does? Last I checked you don't have to make your page screen reader friendly. Some technologies are very inaccessible without modification.
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