[blindlaw] Is there an agreement?

James Pepper b75205 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 15:07:23 UTC 2012


Given that most documents laid out for the blind are not accessible, that
information goes missing in a document or people just simply refuse to make
a document accessible, from a legal perspective is the document legal?  If
the blind receive content that is different or a subset of the content
presented, is the document legal?  It would seem to me that if you can
challenge every government form, every document because it does not present
the same information to each party, that those lawsuits would cause the
change necessary for people to design content properly, to actually do the
work necessary to make content accessible.

The US voter registration form for people who Speak Spanish, speaks in
English.  The Director of the EAC testified before Congress in 2009 stating
he made the forms accessible to the blind.  Nobody seems to care about this
issue, after all who cares if the blind votes in the United States of
America?

James Pepper



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