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Deaf, Blind Sue Over Web Shopping
Wall Street Journal ^
| March 21, 2013
| Joe Palazzolo
Posted on 03/21/2013 5:05:14 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
Commerce has moved online. Now, the disability lawsuits are following. Advocates for disabled Americans have declared that companies have a legal obligation to make their websites as accessible as their stores, and they've filed suits across the country to force them to install the digital version of wheelchair ramps and self-opening doors.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blind; deaf; web
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To: thackney
Recently I took a yr-long web design class.
I couldn’t believe all the BS that has to be done for handicapped people.
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posted on
03/21/2013 6:24:39 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Got a letter from Gov. Palin in reply to my Dad sending her my picture from a TEA party rally.)
To: BlueStateRightist
And how are blues clubs accommodating the deaf? Or how are art museums accommodating the blind?
To: BlueStateRightist
To: BlueStateRightist
We REALLY need to invoke “Loser Pays” for frivolous lawsuits.
Along with just about everything else in America, the judicial system is out of control and becoming a caricature of itself!!
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posted on
03/21/2013 6:42:20 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
To: BlueStateRightist
Miss Daddy Bush yet? Thank him for the ADA!
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posted on
03/21/2013 6:44:07 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Norm Lenhart
I’m waiting for them to put in an elevator on Mt. Everest.
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posted on
03/21/2013 7:19:11 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Pearls Before Swine
“And how are blues clubs accommodating the deaf? “
Marshall Plexis Baby. They go to 11! At least Nigel’s did... ;)
To: mnehring
Can someone explain how being deaf can prevent them from shopping online? iTunes has to become deaf accessible.
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posted on
03/21/2013 7:34:16 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: BlueStateRightist
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posted on
03/21/2013 7:46:11 PM PDT
by
uncommonsense
(Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
To: bgill
I’m waiting for them to put in an elevator on Mt. Everest.LOLOL!!
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posted on
03/22/2013 7:37:31 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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