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.
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.
You need to post this in Braille.
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That’s easy... instead of writing it in bytes, you write your site in brites.
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.
No profanity, please.
As intended.
I’m just glad my bank’s drive-up ATM has braille.
So much for the 1st Amendment freedom to assemble.
Then all websites must become handicapable.
Porn for the blind?
Next up- make all roads a color other than black .... that’s racist.
sorry
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Yep, lots of extra work for web designer/developer to make websites completely accessible.
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?
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I feel yuh!
LOL!
Is the Obamacare website in braille, does it have wheel chair ramps and large bathroom stalls? Absolutely ridiculous.
The ADA has been used as a club to extort money form businesses for years for “discriminating” against people with “disabilities”.
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