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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The neighborhood next to ours asked our HOA if they could pay us to join our local pool. We had to say no, even though it is underutilized and we could use the money, because as soon as we did so, it would be considered “public”, and we’d have to tear the whole thing up and rebuild it to ADA standards.
So instead, nobody but our own homeowners can use the pool. Because it’s fine if we restrict everybody, we keep it private. I don’t know what happens if a disabled person moves into the neighborhood and decides to sue us though.
Why don’t they just sue the people who make the movies because movies are a visually oriented media and unfair to blind people?
What always gets me about these people suing established businesses for not providing products or services for their own particular niche -
WHY DON’T THEY START THEIR OWN BUSINESS SERVIING THIS NICHE?
Want a veggie burger at a fast food place?
Open your OWN veggie burger franchise!
What about touch screens?
The world is ridiculous.
I was riding a bus in a college town awhile back, and the bus lost its hydraulic lift capability. SO, while the bus didn’t move, the man in the wheelchair sat in the cold while we all waited for a bus with proper hydraulics. I made a statement like “just hire drivers who can life/handle wheelchair bound people”.
Problem/resolution? Nope? I got chastised by a wimpy liberal who disagreed with my “basic philosophy”. I guess my suggestion, if carried out, would be unfair to those who cannot lift men in chairs.
Again, there was this problem.....but I guess that didn’t matter....
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