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Redbox sued over access for visually impaired
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=8503403 ^

Posted on 01/12/2012 10:15:06 PM PST by Orange1998

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Redbox is being sued by a group of people with disabilities. The federal civil rights lawsuit says the giant movie rental service discriminates against blind people.

Many movies are dialogue driven and can be enjoyed by the visually impaired.

"You can enjoy large aspects of the narrative without needing to see the visual aspect of the movie at all," Disability Rights Advocates lawyer Michael Nunez said.

Friends and family can also help.

"If there's kind of a non-verbal part of the movie happening, you know, they'll describe what's happening to me," lawsuit plaintiff Lisamaria Martinez said.

But the kiosks of the video rental giant Redbox are difficult, if not impossible, to use for those who are blind and visually impaired. The lawsuit says Redbox needs to change the technology in their kiosks so the visually impaired can rent movies too.

"They have neither tactile buttons nor any other screen feature that would allow blind people to navigate their way through the kiosks," Martinez said.

Martinez and Nunez are almost totally blind. Martinez is suing Redbox. Nunez is a lawyer from Disability Rights Advocates, who's filed the civil rights lawsuit.

For Martinez and others with the same disability, Redbox's touch screen is just another flat surface.

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Just about anybody can be sued for just about anything.
1 posted on 01/12/2012 10:15:12 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

UM...who drove them to the REDBOX??? Or...don’t they have a friend or relative they could get to get the movies...sheesh...this is ridiculous!


2 posted on 01/12/2012 10:17:44 PM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: Orange1998
The Americans with Disabilities act was signed and promoted by George Bush I.
3 posted on 01/12/2012 10:19:03 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Romney. The poster boy for Corporate Welfare and Vulture Capitalism.)
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To: Orange1998

This is silly.
The person that took them to the store can get a film for them.


4 posted on 01/12/2012 10:21:47 PM PST by Bobalu (Newt is just the a-hole we need at a time like this)
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To: Orange1998

They’ve never heard of Netflix?


5 posted on 01/12/2012 10:22:07 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: goodnesswins

I guess this explains why brail is on ATM, still don’t see how they count the money.


6 posted on 01/12/2012 10:23:18 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

Can’t see their point.


7 posted on 01/12/2012 10:24:53 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Orange1998

THIS is yet another example of why our country is going into the shitter! Garbage like this shouldn’t be allowed to even see the light of day in a courtroom, but judges allow it.


8 posted on 01/12/2012 10:24:53 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: goodnesswins

“UM...who drove them to the REDBOX???”

When I was in Car Rental, we had to have a process in place to rent cars to BLIND PEOPLE. In my state, blind people can’t get a drivers license.

But, we’d still have “Blind People” who worked for attorneys trying to rent cars, and be denied, so they could sue us.

The ADA is one of the BIGGEST scams going.


9 posted on 01/12/2012 10:25:22 PM PST by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: Orange1998

Enrolling in law school should be a capital offense.


10 posted on 01/12/2012 10:26:35 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Jonty30

But they sure can find a lawyer. Next you know they will be suing Apple for no tactile keys. I really feel sorry for the blind but this is pushing the envelope.


11 posted on 01/12/2012 10:28:48 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: JennysCool

Until you, like, ya know, actually need one of those students.


12 posted on 01/12/2012 10:29:56 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Orange1998

It’s nonsense for them to clutter up the legal system with this sort of crap as long as there are worthier causes.


13 posted on 01/12/2012 10:32:33 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Orange1998
I guess this explains why brail is on ATM, still don’t see how they count the money.


Thats easy,

$100 bills feel newer and less folded with a hint of leather

$50 bills have multiple fold grooves with a hint of pot and channel

$20 bills are usually triple folded and smell of Dennys, Mcdonalds, and booze

$10s feel slightly crinkled and smell like the mall

$5s are flimsy, worn, and smell of pencils, erasers, and cafeteria food

$1s are infamous for feeling greasy and smelling of underwear,
and when licked can cause hallucinations and vomiting

Oh, and $3 bills talk funny.

14 posted on 01/12/2012 10:39:28 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: Orange1998

What next, Coke machines owners being sued?


15 posted on 01/12/2012 10:43:53 PM PST by rawhide
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m not hiring one that goes after video companies for not kowtowing to the blind. There comes a time when ANY trade overreaches. I remember a time when lawyers were supposedly so honorable they were prevented from advertising. Now all I see on the tube are amateurish, mawkish, lawyer advertisements. The profession has jumped a seaful of sharks.


16 posted on 01/12/2012 10:51:32 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Orange1998

Isn’t this like deaf people suing radio stations?


17 posted on 01/12/2012 10:54:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: MaxMax

That is funny!!!! LOL


18 posted on 01/12/2012 10:54:11 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: dfwgator

Yup and Blind people suing GM for not having operator friendly cars.


19 posted on 01/12/2012 10:59:18 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: JennysCool
The profession has jumped a seaful of sharks.Why would lawyers have to jump the sharks, the sharks won't eat them.....professional courtesy.
20 posted on 01/12/2012 11:02:37 PM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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