Two congresspeople are sponsoring a bill to help indie business fight abusive ADA lawsuits, shares Anne Flynn Wear, a writer for Furniture Today.
I know businesses that have been targeted by lawyers seeking to cash in on the ADA law. The defendants, even after they 'fix' their website, often have to settle for thousands of dollars.
The ADA was not written with websites in mind (the law was created in 1990--well before the Internet), and the law doesn't allow businesses a grace period to ...
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May 12, 2019
May 12, 2019
Does your business require customers to have a mobile app before entering your store? Amazonโs Go store does. This raises questions about accessibility, privacy, and freedom. I believe that public stores are democratic places where anyone can enter and browse. Requiring someone to first download tracking software seems intrusive.
Letโs consider this for kids: should teenagers be required to download a mobile tracking app to enter a store?
Is your cell phone screen like a cereal box aisle? Its colored icons are meant to make your want all of its Trix and Lucky Charms. Imagine an aisle of black and white cereal boxesโwould you eat more healthy? Todayโs Times suggests that changing your mobile phone screen to grayscale may help ease the โmobile junk food diet.โ
Excerpt from Lifehacker: iPhone: In iOS 10, go to Settings > General > Accessibility >Display Accommodations >Color Filters. Switch Color Filters on and select Grayscale.