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.
And they have all of that on the 0bamacare site????
Its expensive. It has to do with the coding of the site, so that the conversion tools can read it. So pictures will have a description and every cell has a label.
I know of a guy here in Tampa who makes a career out of filing lawsuits. He goes from door to door looking for something to complain about.
It’s all part of the feds taking control over websites on the internet.
Yep. He sues for an amount small enough that it would cost the business owner more in legal fees than the “damages”.
See... I knew somebody would get it.
and soon they will aim these rules at political sites too.
I personally got hit by one of these. He said my company stole content from his website.
He claimed ownership of HIPAA and Security Assessment among a bunch of other words.
He was a lawyer, can’t mention the name but I would love to feed him to some hungry pitbulls.
Sit on what???
In theory, any website you build on a government contract has to meet the accessibility standards. In practice, most don't until forced. By then, the site is built and the retrofit is horribly expensive. The same applies to being IPv6 compliant by 2005. It's there, but almost nobody complies.
A crummy commercial? Son of a b——!
Why is the Internet being treated different than other media? Are all printed newspapers available in Braille? If not, why not? Are all TV media available in forms the blind can utilize? If so, why not?
Obama’s simply attacking the Internet because he can’t control it (so far).
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That was going on in Los Angeles about 5 or 10 years ago. I don’t know if it still goes on there or not, I mean with these same people. Two guys went into restaurant restrooms and measured the distance from the floor to the mirror, etc. If a person in a wheel chair couldn’t use it, they got sued, usually about $16K. They had a lawyer in on it. It was cheaper and easier to just pay the lawsuit. Happened all the time. I listened to KFI am radio and they were always talking about this group.
Yet when we went to Half Dome, owned by the Federal Government, there was no easy way to get to the top of Half Dome! No ramps etc. The feds are always blameless....
And the traffic signs, too, right?
“Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a company cannot exclude, deny service to, segregate or treat differently people who are hearing or vision impaired.”
Why only hearing and vision impairment, why not hearing, vision & speech impairment, and why not insuring service for quadriplegics with hearing, vision & speech impairment????
Why just physical disabilities, why not also include a quadriplegic with vision, hearing, speech and mental disabilities?
Why not just say companies MUST make possible their services to EVERY POSSIBLE person, not matter what it takes to make that possible - “damn the costs, full access ahead”.
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