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The blind spot is in using legal violence to coerce people into being "considerate" of people with disabilities. Assistive accessibility is a god damned gold mi

The blind spot is in using legal violence to coerce people into being "considerate" of people with disabilities. Assistive accessibility is a god damned gold mine for whichever company solves the problem in each industry. Flash's use on the web led to far more good things than bad, and this one bad thing is really just being heightened because the media places falsely high emphasis on being worried about people with disabilities. The fact is that we have many, MANY advocates who are all a lot nicer, more helpful, and more effective than Washington, DC.

shadowgovt 7y ago
You can't force people to be considerate. ... which is why we have laws to force people to do the right thing even when they don't have the right emotions behind it. I think we're coming at this from two different directions; the people I work with have come to learn that if you don't beat the drum more or less continuously, things don't get better. Not nearly enough folks are inclined to be considerate; consideration without force of law just isn't good enough.
- tabtab 7y ago
  The law says "reasonable accommodations". Spending 30% more on IT is not "reasonable" in my book. Spending millions to help a handful of people is not "reasonable". Of course, it is situational. Your main product or service should be accessible, but ancillary and blue-moon information is too expensive to keep compliant. One org provided statistical reports to the public. But the format was not ADA-friendly, and reworking hundreds of reports would cost tens of millions. So they stopped providing the reports.
  - shadowgovt 7y ago
    Weird. I wonder which org.
- AndrewUnmuted 7y ago
  > consideration without force of law just isn't good enough. I take it back. You are a shitty person. Those of us in the disabled community hate people like you.
  - shadowgovt 7y ago
    That sucks for me. I'll have to tell my friends in the disabled community they hate me. :(

shadowgovt 7y ago

You can't force people to be considerate. ... which is why we have laws to force people to do the right thing even when they don't have the right emotions behind it. I think we're coming at this from two different directions; the people I work with have come to learn that if you don't beat the drum more or less continuously, things don't get better. Not nearly enough folks are inclined to be considerate; consideration without force of law just isn't good enough.

tabtab 7y ago
The law says "reasonable accommodations". Spending 30% more on IT is not "reasonable" in my book. Spending millions to help a handful of people is not "reasonable". Of course, it is situational. Your main product or service should be accessible, but ancillary and blue-moon information is too expensive to keep compliant. One org provided statistical reports to the public. But the format was not ADA-friendly, and reworking hundreds of reports would cost tens of millions. So they stopped providing the reports.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  Weird. I wonder which org.
AndrewUnmuted 7y ago
> consideration without force of law just isn't good enough. I take it back. You are a shitty person. Those of us in the disabled community hate people like you.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  That sucks for me. I'll have to tell my friends in the disabled community they hate me. :(