[Quality_Not_Quantity]

How the heck do you make a website braille? And most browsers have text-to-speech capabilities built in.

“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.” Even a blind-from-birth person can see through that lie.

[optiguy]

You need to post this in Braille.

[Maceman]

Peopod can afford tech people to make accommodations. But there are lots of small micro-businesses that are going to be screwed, including me.

This will be a disaster.

[Proud2BeRight]

I’m just glad my bank’s drive-up ATM has braille.

[taxcontrol]

So much for the 1st Amendment freedom to assemble.

[a fool in paradise]

Then all websites must become handicapable.

Porn for the blind?

[SkyDancer]

Next up- make all roads a color other than black .... that’s racist.

[Vendome]

Shouldn’t people with disabilities order by phone or have personal assistants or courtesans and knaves to do all their work?

Which company filed a back office complaint with DOJ to inhibit a competitor?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The ADA has been used as a club to extort money form businesses for years for “discriminating” against people with “disabilities”.

[pabianice]

>>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.“

Does this not give the Government freedom to close-down any internet business they dislike?

[Amendment10]

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.

[Iron Munro]

[GeronL]

ridonculus

[Resolute Conservative]

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Signal from the United States.

[wildbill]

It probably will doom many small business websites. I suppose someone will invent a program that can be incorporated into websites for braille or other disabilities—but will it be cheap enough to make it financially feasible for mom and pop operations to install it and keep it current.

I’m putting my website that is under construction on permanent hold.

[Darksheare]

We’ll get right on making ramps for the website.

[reg45]

When we have Braille computers and tablets, maybe this will work.

[DUMBGRUNT]

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.

And they have all of that on the 0bamacare site????

[Myrddin]

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.

[catnipman]

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).