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That's my question, am I a protected class for not being able to operate a smartphone? I think many of a typical doctor's constituency fall into that category.
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
That's my question, am I a protected class for not being able to operate a smartphone? I think many of a typical doctor's constituency fall into that category.
- bee_rider 2y agoI don’t think “person who is unable to operate a cellphone” is a protected class. There might be some overlap between those people and people in other protected classes. But it is hard to say just based on a hypothetical, right?
- mrandish 2y ago> a typical doctor's constituency fall into that category. My 95 year-old mother can't use apps on her iphone because she can't figure out the navigation and various modes. Because of this her phone usage is limited to answering incoming calls, making calls to the six icons we've preset on her home screen, receiving texts and replying to the last text she received (because it's still on the screen). Anything else is iffy. And she's not cognitively impaired. She's actually quite sharp for her age and lives on her own within an assisted care community.
- mapt 2y agoNo. You're not. Blind people are. At least, insofar as we still have the ADA. One thing these companies are doing is charging blind people extra. Phrase it that way and you can maybe move some policy levers.