[blindlaw] Fw: Accommodation and Compliance series: The ADAAmendments Act of 2008

James Pepper b75205 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 3 19:39:20 UTC 2009


No, a person with just a contact lens is not disbled that is specically
excluded.  You have to have much more disability. It has to alter your life
significantly.

I think the biggest problem to accessibility comes when you have to handle
the undue burden clauses because Information technology people jack up the
costs of fixing problems on the state level.  The barriers to entry to being
able to sell to states is just too much trouble so solutions to
accessibility die.

There is a western state where teh agency in charge of making forms charges
the state $1500 just to save a document using one special setting.  This
means that some Information technology official in that state is earning
$18000 an hour to make PDF forms accessible to teh blind.  So when the
states start complaining about the costs, perhaps they should consider
firing their information technology people and start with someone who knows
what they are doing!

I see so much waste it is incredible!

It is far easier to do it right the first time than to have to go back and
fix something after it is made.  Most information officers in states have no
idea how to make anything accessible to the blind, not only that, they
cannot write code properly.  I recommend failure standards for information
technology personnel and if they cannot do their jobs, fire them!

What gets me is that all of these companies are spending a fortune in
lawyers fees trying to defend themselves becasue thei webmasters failed to
make their websites accessible to the blind.  Did anyone consider just
firing the webmaster and hiring someone who knows what they are doing?

James Pepper



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