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July 31, 2010
Rejoice! The Americans with Disablities Act is 20 and still picking your pocket ...
... in creative ways previously dreamed impossible:
In recent months a New Jersey jury ordered a rheumatologist to pay $400,000 for not providing a deaf patient with a sign language interpreter at his own expense; the Ninth Circuit ruled that the law may require movie theaters to provide captions and descriptions for blind or deaf viewers; a federal appeals court ruled that the nation’s paper currency unfairly discriminates against the disabled and must be redesigned (thus taking a different view from the National Federation of the Blind, which doesn’t think there’s a problem); a police dispatcher won a settlement in her lawsuit saying she was unfairly discriminated against because of her narcolepsy (tendency to fall asleep at inappropriate times); a large online tutoring service agreed to provide interpreters; miniature golf courses learned they will have to make 50 percent of their holes accessible to wheelchair users; and so forth. On Friday the Department of Justice announced that it would revisit the high-stakes question of whether and to what extent website operators must make their designs and services “accessible” to disabled computer users, perhaps in onerous and expensive ways. -- ADA’s 20th Anniversary | Cato @ Liberty
Posted by Vanderleun at July 31, 2010 12:30 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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When the ADA was first signed into law, the ceremony was attended by succesful disabled people who had managed to make great lives for themselves without this ADA act. Go figure.
On a sardonically funny note: the ADA is a product of that branch of "progressivism" that touts "compassion" to absurd levels. The current crop of progressives who occupy the WH and executive branch belong to the "utilitarian" side of that movement and would gladly euthanize as many disabled as they think they could get away with. Obama himself, Holdren, Rahm's uber-creepy doctor brother, that Berwick fellow, and all their fellow-travellers, from Peter Singer to Dr. Kevorkian and a bunch of others in between all ascribe to this utilitarian philosophy to one degree or another. Eugenics, anyone?
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at August 1, 2010 11:49 AM
Amazon has been threatened by the Justice Department to cease and desist issuing Kindles to university students in an experiment with various universities. The experiment is in whether the students would rather get their textbooks downloaded to a Kindle ebook reader, or to buy actual textbooks. Kindle has an audio feature which allows text to speech reading. The problem is that the Kindle is not designed with the needs of the blind in mind, and so the Justice Department, great equalizer of us all is now threatening to take Amazon to court because the blind won't be able to participate in the study.
Now excuse me, but are the blind able to buy the text books and read hard copies?
I would think that once a blind person knows where everything is on a Kindle it wouldn't be a difficult thing to navigate.
Sounds like the Justice Department has way too much time on its hands.
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