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Reminds me of the recent story where Domino's would rather fight a case to the Supreme Court than take rudimentary steps to make their site usable by the blind.

by SilasX 7y ago

Reminds me of the recent story where Domino's would rather fight a case to the Supreme Court than take rudimentary steps to make their site usable by the blind. (And the reporting site isn't any better.) https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-to-say-disability-protections-dont-apply-online.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-t...

rolltiide 7y ago
> In its filing with the top court, the Chamber of Commerce wrote that the Justice Department has provided only “inconsistent, nonbinding, and unaccountable” rules so this is the correct channel to get this done. the court can force the legislature's and the executive branches' hand on providing specific rules - of course alongside permanently invalidate them, or siding with the lower courts whereas private lawsuits just create a hodge podge of case law and settlements that can be conflicting and irreconcilable to comply with until drumroll resolved by the Supreme Court so yeah, fuck the optics - pun intended - and use the remaining path to consensus available
- henryfjordan 7y ago
  I'd like to know how much Domino's actually did here. Did they actually try but this guy's particular screen reader didn't work or did they do absolutely nothing and throw their hands up? There's a big difference between "we tried our best but the law is ambiguous" and "the law is ambiguous so we didn't try".
  - rolltiide 7y ago
    I honestly don't think it matters since the whole point of this speculation is just to be mad at them for going against a blind man in court I'm totally fine with it being something as simple as wanting to do a trendy React SPA and then getting sued because it wasn't accessible: It doesn't matter if it was a software limitation, their own designer's and management's lack of awareness, their devs, or the ADA ambiguity Its pay this lawsuit or settle with this blind man and the next one, or figure out what the law actually is.

by SilasX 7y ago

rolltiide 7y ago

> In its filing with the top court, the Chamber of Commerce wrote that the Justice Department has provided only “inconsistent, nonbinding, and unaccountable” rules so this is the correct channel to get this done. the court can force the legislature's and the executive branches' hand on providing specific rules - of course alongside permanently invalidate them, or siding with the lower courts whereas private lawsuits just create a hodge podge of case law and settlements that can be conflicting and irreconcilable to comply with until drumroll resolved by the Supreme Court so yeah, fuck the optics - pun intended - and use the remaining path to consensus available

henryfjordan 7y ago
I'd like to know how much Domino's actually did here. Did they actually try but this guy's particular screen reader didn't work or did they do absolutely nothing and throw their hands up? There's a big difference between "we tried our best but the law is ambiguous" and "the law is ambiguous so we didn't try".
- rolltiide 7y ago
  I honestly don't think it matters since the whole point of this speculation is just to be mad at them for going against a blind man in court I'm totally fine with it being something as simple as wanting to do a trendy React SPA and then getting sued because it wasn't accessible: It doesn't matter if it was a software limitation, their own designer's and management's lack of awareness, their devs, or the ADA ambiguity Its pay this lawsuit or settle with this blind man and the next one, or figure out what the law actually is.