[Blindtlk] Fw: [Travelandtourism] Spirit Airlines is nolongeraccessible using speech [Incident: 120307-000422]

[don nepple]

hi wher is this air line basted out of i have never herd of it.boy that does not sound good for  us don.
 

> From: atlanticstar1 at gmail.com
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:23:02 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Fw: [Travelandtourism] Spirit Airlines is nolongeraccessible using speech [Incident: 120307-000422]
> 
> Chris:
> 
> Keep in mind the ADA bill originally came out in 1990 way before the 
> internet is what it is today. The authors of the original bill could not 
> see into the future so now the ADA has many wholes that Companies can work 
> around and so Spirit Airlines is using one of them. In no where in the 
> original ADA bill is the inaccessibility of websites mentioned. We need to 
> urge our elected officials to revisit the original ADA bill and add these 
> provisions. Spirit Airlines has done there research and under the current 
> laws, they don't have to make there site accessible. Like it or not, these 
> are the unfortunate facts. I was hoping I could appeal to there fare 
> customer service relations to at least do the right thing. However, there's 
> one thing I have learned about the airlines, they won't do nothing unless 
> its mandated by the Government.
> 
> Reese
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> Reese,
> 
> Great advocacy on your part!! Good for you!! It appears as though
> Spirit Airlines is trying to make some kind of excuse for their
> inaccessible Web site, and are politely dismissing the complaints
> which you have filed with them as having no real legal backing.
> After all, blind people can't possibly know the law, right?
> Spirit Airlines has people to investigate this; just trust them!
> But the problem is that these legal "experts" work for the very
> company which is the subject of your complaints. So it is only
> natural that they will try to find some law or regulation to
> cover their you-know-what's. Maybe the DOT doesn't require them
> to make their Web site accessible to us, but a law that
> supercedes any DOT regulation, the ADA (passed by Congress and
> signed into law by the then-President in 1990,) that does. In
> short, this response by Michelle of Spirit Airlines, in my
> opinion, boils down to this: "The DOT doesn't require us to make
> our Web site accessible, and therefore your complaint has no
> legal precedent. As far as we can tell, we're following the law,
> so screw all you blind people!"
> 
> 
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