Winn-Dixie ordered to update website for the blind
60 mins did a segment about this a while back. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Xjq9xWnwT0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1Xjq9xWnwT0</a><p>ABC15 Arizona also did a story <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D60we_4VZGY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D60we_4VZGY</a><p>Another interesting thing is building inspectors that work for the city, don&#x27;t care about ADA only city codes from my understanding. I never dealt with them, but after watching this segment I can see violations all over when I go places. Like ADA is 20 years old and my city doesn&#x27;t even have curb cuts for wheelchairs. Plus some small towns websites have bad low contrast or horrible fonts. I also think some flat UI designs are really horrible to tell things apart.<p>Sad thing, some of these lawyers doing this only cares about making money, and not actually helping accessibility.<p>There&#x27;s a bill in Congress H.R.620 
 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;620" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;115th-congress&#x2F;house-bill&#x2F;620</a> that is meant to reform this. Basically you&#x27;d write a written complaint to the business, Then the business gets 60 days to reply outlining how they will improve it. Then 120 days to actually fix it. You can&#x27;t just go out right suing, they get a chance to correct it. If they aren&#x27;t correct it, then you get to sue. Seems fair to both the business owners, and accessibility.<p>There was one case I remember when watching related videos before, that someone had to pay a lawyer 5K and all the work they had to do is move the soap dispenser. Something the business owner himself was able to do with a screwdriver and 15 mins. Then someone else had to pay 5K over missing a $50 sign, another quick fix. I guess if H.R.620 was the law, with those really small changes they could just fix it right away and reply saying they already fixed it outlining how.<p>On the side note, making captions helps SEO find your video, and powers the transcripts. Sometimes watching a long presentation like a hour long, later I&#x27;ll be working on somthing and remember hearing about the problem before... So I&#x27;ll look up the video, go to transcripts and ctrl-f. I was listening to a podcast on a walk one day, and wanting to write down some notes when I got home of some points that interested me... But no transcript, so I&#x27;d have to go back and listen to find it again...<p>However, somethings I think might be impossible to make accessible like complex applications for 3D Virtual worlds, 3D Modeling, Camara filters, Photo editing.<p>Also wonder how this would apply to user generated content. Should Facebook or YouTube or the uploader be sued for some random vlogger not captioning a video, or some individual live streaming from their phone? I&#x27;d surely hope there&#x27;d be exemptions for those websites, probably Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would cover that case. However if a business uploaded a video to YouTube, then that business should caption it for sure. However, I hope lawyers don&#x27;t start going after individual YouTubers... Didn&#x27;t caption that video of your family at the theme park? $5,000 demand letter! That would get ridiculous if lawyers ever attempted to do that.