Oh. Apparently their 30 days heads up wasn't sufficient for them to implement something reasonable to mitigate the issues for the visually impaired/blind either. Dispicable.
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Isn’t this a violation of the ADA?
A few years ago I read about a group of lawyers, the self-serving greedy bastard kind of lawyers, that went around finding websites with accessibility violations and would file suit against them. With the way the laws are written the cases were slam dunks. The lawyers didn't actually care about the violations, it was just a way to make a quick buck. It would be a shame if reddit had to face a swarm of those piranhas.
You posted an image without alt-text in a thread about blind folks? Really?
To be fair that means we need to get those same lawyers to sue Lemmy for allowing that to happen.
Mods aren’t employees so the ADA wouldn’t apply here and constitute legal discrimination. Albeit this is pretty dang negligent from a business perspective.
ADA doesn't just apply to employer/employee relationships.
"The ADA is divided into four main sections, which are called Titles: Title I covers employment; Title II covers public entities and public transportation; Title III covers public accommodations and commercial facilities; and Title IV covers telecommunications"
I assumed the person I was responding to was talking about a violation of employer/employee regulations. When it comes to social media, I don’t believe the telecommunications pillar applies right?
Ya I don't think any of the sections apply. You are correct.
Hopefully this is a slam dunk class action lawsuit.
I’ve worked with (read: done a tiny amount of work with) accessibility compliance and you basically only need a “we’re working towards accessibility” disclaimer somewhere to be legally covered. Not sure how that works with blatant regressions like this, though; I imagine a case could be made that their statement is a lie.
Oh how I would love to be a fly on the fucking wall at Reddit HQ. I must know what is going through their brains at this moment as things begin to implode and melt into unmoderated madness. I’m dying to know what is being said about r/Blind and r/IAMA and if they are prepared for the ongoing fallout or desperately trying to salvage what they can to still manage to package and sell to some fool
The more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that the powers that be want reddit to die because it is a forum where people have (had) honest discussions about things unrelated to consumption
The corporations are sprinting to build moats around our data to sell to one another. They don’t care who gets left outside of the castle as they pull the drawbridge up. Scumbags