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> Reasonable accommodation isn’t significantly onerous in the vast majority of cases. You are correct that a reasonable accommodation isn't particularly hard i

> Reasonable accommodation isn’t significantly onerous in the vast majority of cases. You are correct that a reasonable accommodation isn't particularly hard in many cases. The disconnect in communication here is that you're thinking in terms of a reasonable person. Unreasonable people exist. There are unfortunately some disabled people that would refuse to be satisfied by almost anything you provide them. The ADA lawsuits don't magically vanish just because you try and be reasonable and they refuse to be satisfied in turn hoping for some payday. The vast majority of disabled people are probably thankful for the accommodation, but it just takes 1 ambulance chasing jerk to pursue a dumb case that sinks a business.

kayodelycaon 4y ago
One unreasonable person can ruin a lot of things. You’re never getting around that. I wish ADA wasn’t handled by lawsuits, but everything is the US is a fucking lawsuit… The problem I have is many businesses don’t even try in the first place. They don’t know anything about ADA and point to the one unreasonable person as justification to do nothing. There are far more businesses being “unreasonable” than there are people filing ADA lawsuits.
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- logicalmonster 4y ago
  > The problem I have is many businesses don’t even try in the first place. Is this perception accurate? I have my own life experience and thankfully do not have any disabilities that I know of, but it definitely doesn't seem this way to me. For example, if a disabled person went into a restaurant and asked for a bigger seating area to accommodate their wheelchair or crutches or whatever, is there a restaurant out there that wouldn't try to rearrange the tables or move stuff around where possible? I'm using this example because I worked in different restaurants in the past and all of them were happy to carry tables up and down stairs to make space and even force other seated customers to move to ensure that anybody who wanted extra space was accommodated. Not sure what else you want to see from stores.

kayodelycaon 4y ago

One unreasonable person can ruin a lot of things. You’re never getting around that. I wish ADA wasn’t handled by lawsuits, but everything is the US is a fucking lawsuit… The problem I have is many businesses don’t even try in the first place. They don’t know anything about ADA and point to the one unreasonable person as justification to do nothing. There are far more businesses being “unreasonable” than there are people filing ADA lawsuits.

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logicalmonster 4y ago
> The problem I have is many businesses don’t even try in the first place. Is this perception accurate? I have my own life experience and thankfully do not have any disabilities that I know of, but it definitely doesn't seem this way to me. For example, if a disabled person went into a restaurant and asked for a bigger seating area to accommodate their wheelchair or crutches or whatever, is there a restaurant out there that wouldn't try to rearrange the tables or move stuff around where possible? I'm using this example because I worked in different restaurants in the past and all of them were happy to carry tables up and down stairs to make space and even force other seated customers to move to ensure that anybody who wanted extra space was accommodated. Not sure what else you want to see from stores.