Posted on 11/18/2014 1:12:04 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Justice Department reached an agreement Monday with Peapod, a popular Internet grocer, to settle claims that the company’s website discriminated against people with disabilities.
The agreement forces Peapod LLC and parent company Ahold USA to update www.peapod.com so assistive technologies like text-to-speech and Braille displays function with the site.
The DOJ hailed the action as ensuring that anti-discrimination laws under the Americans with Disabilities Act apply to Internet businesses as well as brick and mortar stores.
“This agreement ensures that people with disabilities will have an equal opportunity to independently and conveniently shop online for groceries,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, of the department’s civil rights division.
“We applaud Peapod for working cooperatively with the department and for its commitment to customers with disabilities.”
Peapod will be required to adopt a formal web accessibility policy, hire an accessibility coordinator, auto test the website for openness and solicit feedback from customers on how site can be improved.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a company cannot exclude, deny service to, segregate or treat differently people who are hearing or vision impaired.
Didn’t you read the posting rules?
Does this not give the Government freedom to close-down any internet business they dislike?
I’m not trying to be mean to disabled people, but please consider the following. Since the states have never amended the Constitution to provide protections for disabled people, DOJ interference with this web site is just another example of the federal government expanding its power outside the framework of the Constitution by exercising constitutionally nonexistant federal government power to win votes for Democrats.
“Didn’t you read the posting rules?
Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.”
Oh yeah?
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and your little dog too!
And the horse you rode in on!
Yeah, see if you can figure that out!
“I’m just glad my bank’s drive-up ATM has braille.”
It’s OK. The dog is driving.
I didn’t ride in on a horse.
Yes, somebody complained who was not smart enough to do it, or was edging in on them in some way. That is usually the case in all these suits about disabilities.
good luck with that. lol
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ridonculus
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right
know what I’m saying?
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me either
I think you are mixed-up. Those are the requirements for ‘Gentlemen’s Club’ aka Nudie Bar’s stripper stage and you need to add the ‘pole (handicap-type)’.
I hate to be the lone fool : )
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Signal from the United States.
I am trying to imagine a blind-hearing impaired person trying to braille a porn site.
dot dot dash dot dot... hang on that’s morse code isn’t it?
oh-oh-yes-omigowd-yes-YES
It’s hard enough to figure out lolcatz for the blind.
Bush’s fault. #41 that is.
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