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

ckrugman at sbcglobal.net ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 4 00:21:51 UTC 2009


thwe martial arts or survival skills that a person uses does not deter from 
the fact that they are disabled under the law.
Chuck
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From: "Mark BurningHawk" <stone_troll at sbcglobal.net>
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> I'm considered disabled because, without accommodation, I would have a 
> severely limited life capacity, but that accommodation is out of my 
> control? I have known blind people who do not use a cane or a dog--though 
> they are rare--because their martial arts or other survival skills are 
> good enough to let them be mobile and safe--are they not considered 
> disabled, where I am?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Fw: Accommodation and Compliance series: 
> TheADAAmendments Act of 2008
>
>
>> 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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