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I really hope not. I don’t think “X compliance” is a good idea for a startup, because of trust and liability. Whomever does the compliant would either need a

I really hope not. I don’t think “X compliance” is a good idea for a startup, because of trust and liability. Whomever does the compliant would either need a ton of liability insurance, or would need contract language that actually gets them out of responsibility (similar to the language in many travel insurance and point-of-dale service plans). The former would be expensive, so you’d probably end up with the latter. Web accessibility compliance does require a human to look at (and interact with) a site, and it requires people who either have training, or experience. That costs more. I really hope we don’t end up with “Uber for accessibility compliance”, with testers who aren’t paid enough, and who don’t get enough time to test a site.

tibbon 7y ago
There’s a lot of businesses that focus on legal compliance. Maybe they aren’t “uber for compliance”, but there’s plenty of compliance centric work out there
robotstate 7y ago
Like it or not, these businesses will pop up. There are already companies doing similar things for privacy compliance.
weberc2 7y ago
There have been businesses that provide compliance services for forever. I would expect ADA compliance to be dramatically simpler and easier than HIPPA or SOC or GDPR.
adventured 7y ago
What you're describing already exists for most businesses. Try opening a restaurant without hiring a specialist firm to do compliance reviews (rhetorical: is food safety more important than privacy protections?). Bricks & mortar businesses often have a parade of compliance and certification hoops to keep spinning that they live or die by. The future of the Internet is the present of all other industry. Take all the regulations and government interference that already exists in old industries and apply it to every business online, every commercial website. Nothing can stop this process, it's well underway now and will get radically worse over the coming 10-15 years. The regulation monster has its claws out and is beginning to sink them in (half the room will cheer that today, then complain ten years from now at the burden; oh but they went too far, you see; human nature in action). Whatever it is you want to build, do it now before the regulators and competition (through regulatory capture) conspire even further to make it far more expensive and burdensome. Hurry, the old days of a low regulation, free Internet are rapidly fading.

tibbon 7y ago

There’s a lot of businesses that focus on legal compliance. Maybe they aren’t “uber for compliance”, but there’s plenty of compliance centric work out there

robotstate 7y ago

Like it or not, these businesses will pop up. There are already companies doing similar things for privacy compliance.

weberc2 7y ago

There have been businesses that provide compliance services for forever. I would expect ADA compliance to be dramatically simpler and easier than HIPPA or SOC or GDPR.

adventured 7y ago

What you're describing already exists for most businesses. Try opening a restaurant without hiring a specialist firm to do compliance reviews (rhetorical: is food safety more important than privacy protections?). Bricks & mortar businesses often have a parade of compliance and certification hoops to keep spinning that they live or die by. The future of the Internet is the present of all other industry. Take all the regulations and government interference that already exists in old industries and apply it to every business online, every commercial website. Nothing can stop this process, it's well underway now and will get radically worse over the coming 10-15 years. The regulation monster has its claws out and is beginning to sink them in (half the room will cheer that today, then complain ten years from now at the burden; oh but they went too far, you see; human nature in action). Whatever it is you want to build, do it now before the regulators and competition (through regulatory capture) conspire even further to make it far more expensive and burdensome. Hurry, the old days of a low regulation, free Internet are rapidly fading.