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Sounds like whoever sold her the theme didn't bother with accessibility. I think laws like this are good, but at the same time they will end up pushing people t

Sounds like whoever sold her the theme didn't bother with accessibility. I think laws like this are good, but at the same time they will end up pushing people to stick to larger sites like shopify or just listing on ebay/amzn to avoid all this.

esyir 7y ago
This just sounds to me like "I like regulation, but hate over-regulation". Except that here, like potentially many other cases, there weren't any sane bounds on said regulation.
- CathedralBorrow 7y ago
  Sometimes I think it's "I like regulation, but I hate regulation that puts a burden on me."
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  - esyir 7y ago
    To be fair, proposing regulation on people is really easy if you're not affected. And individual rules can often sound nice at first glance, only to have disastrous consequences in practice. Add in the fact that repeal of regulation is an... onerous process, and things get even more tricky.
    - CathedralBorrow 7y ago
      True. And also to be fair, it is very easy to dismiss advocacy for regulations as naive ideals from inexperienced people who like things that sound nice but are ignorant of the realities of the world.
miracle2k 7y ago
If the case the GP described is an intended outcome of the law working as designed, I don't think it is a good law.
- diffeomorphism 7y ago
  What is wrong with a) and b)? Remove c) and this sounds like a great intended outcome: "Notice stuff is broken. Notify. Stuff gets fixed".
  - Mirioron 7y ago
    Because the actual outcome isn't that you now have a website that's accessible. The actual outcome is that you now don't have a website at all. I suppose that does mean that everybody has equal accessibility - none.
    - diffeomorphism 7y ago
      That is needlessly black and white and hyperbole. Out of 100 websites you will have now, some of them are currently discriminatory. Some of them will shutdown, some will stop discriminating, some never discriminated to begin with. Instead of going for the hyperbolic "none" put an actual number to it. Is not discriminating worth it if we then only have 99 websites? 95? 50? 20?
rstupek 7y ago
I've seen many Shopify sites which are not ADA compliant.

esyir 7y ago

This just sounds to me like "I like regulation, but hate over-regulation". Except that here, like potentially many other cases, there weren't any sane bounds on said regulation.

CathedralBorrow 7y ago
Sometimes I think it's "I like regulation, but I hate regulation that puts a burden on me."
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- esyir 7y ago
  To be fair, proposing regulation on people is really easy if you're not affected. And individual rules can often sound nice at first glance, only to have disastrous consequences in practice. Add in the fact that repeal of regulation is an... onerous process, and things get even more tricky.
  - CathedralBorrow 7y ago
    True. And also to be fair, it is very easy to dismiss advocacy for regulations as naive ideals from inexperienced people who like things that sound nice but are ignorant of the realities of the world.

miracle2k 7y ago

If the case the GP described is an intended outcome of the law working as designed, I don't think it is a good law.

diffeomorphism 7y ago
What is wrong with a) and b)? Remove c) and this sounds like a great intended outcome: "Notice stuff is broken. Notify. Stuff gets fixed".
- Mirioron 7y ago
  Because the actual outcome isn't that you now have a website that's accessible. The actual outcome is that you now don't have a website at all. I suppose that does mean that everybody has equal accessibility - none.
  - diffeomorphism 7y ago
    That is needlessly black and white and hyperbole. Out of 100 websites you will have now, some of them are currently discriminatory. Some of them will shutdown, some will stop discriminating, some never discriminated to begin with. Instead of going for the hyperbolic "none" put an actual number to it. Is not discriminating worth it if we then only have 99 websites? 95? 50? 20?

rstupek 7y ago

I've seen many Shopify sites which are not ADA compliant.