[NFBCS] Any advice on how to proceed with an ADA complaint against the NFL?

Tue Sep 21 05:04:43 UTC 2021

Well, the NFL is really trying to lock down access to it's games, so you are limited by the NFL when it comes to accessing out of market games, which is a big reason to sign up with Game Pass. Last season, for example, TuneIn Premium dropped carrying NFL games, so the only way I knew of to guarantee you could get a particular game on the weekend was either through Game Pass or XM/SIRIUS. You could try finding a radio who's internet stream hadn't been shut down by the NFL, but the NFL is trying actively to keep this from happening. It seems like it'll be hard for the NFL to claim that you could somehow get access to their games through some other accommodation.

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Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Outlook

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Any advice on how to proceed with an ADA complaint against the NFL?

get the $100 back with the help of your credit card company. As far as filing an ADA complaint, you can try. You can also see if an attorney would it take the case pro bono where they would take a portion out after the lawsuit. You would want to look for disability lawyers who have done similar cases in the past. Perhaps you could see which lawyers worked on the greyhound case and the dominoes case to see if they would help.

Another problem is but technically they might be able to get away with it if they are providing equal access not inside the app. For example, some places within accessible websites have gotten away with it by saying that a blind person can do business with them over the phone. Greyhound was actually charging fees to use the phone service when the website wasn't accessible, and there are things you can do on the dominoes app that you can't do on the phone.

cooks illustrated is also similar so if you get it figured out let me know because I want to do the same thing to make cooks illustrated be accessible. But more importantly, Walmart really needs to be accessible.

Sabra Ewing

> On Sep 20, 2021, at 8:00 PM, Ryan Stevens via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, CJ,
> 
> I don't have any advice on this, but I'm glad you brought it up. The 
> NFL fantasy app has also been for all intents and purposes 
> inaccessible for a few years now. Thankfully, the website is usable 
> enough, although it has some issues. I wanted to ask for NFB guidance 
> for a while, but wasn't sure whether NFBCS was the right venue. 
> Perhaps this will start a groundswell and the NFL can take accessibility seriously.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan Stevens
> 
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> against the NFL?
> 
> I'm just wondering how this would work and if I'm just wasting my 
> time, but the NFL app on IOS just became completely unusable with the 
> release of IOS 15. It's never been accessible, but I could always make it work in the past.
> The audio/video feeds come up muted to start with, and in the past I 
> could use the volume keys to unmute the volume. This no longer works 
> in IOS 15. I reported this to Apple and the NFL during the IOS 15 beta 
> with no response from either company. I opened up a complaint with the 
> DoJ, but I'm wondering if it's worth looking for a lawyer. Obviously, 
> I'd like to get my $100 back from the NFL for my subscription to Game 
> Pass, but I'm out of the seven day free trial. I was able to live with 
> the work around during the seven day free trial, but that work around 
> no longer works. The $100 isn't important, but getting the NFL to take 
> accessibility seriously is what I'm really interested in.
> 
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> Chaltain at Outlook
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