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View submission: Next steps for new.reddit.com
y'all at reddit do know that this change possibly violates ADA guidelines since visual disability help addon's on browsers used the new.reddit.com[1] layout to work
sooo... i'm expecting lawsuits soon
Comment by autogatos at 03/08/2024 at 00:42 UTC
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I’m assuming there’s some loophole where sites have a certain amount of leeway/time to roll out accessibility features, or aren‘t required to support 3rd party accessibility addons or something like that. - I could be completely wrong, I’m not as familiar with web-related ADA policies, it just *seems* like something that would favor companies/web devs over disabled users, either in terms of policy, or at least enforcement.
Way too many ADA things seem to be like that. Or they just fall under the “company in question has way more money to pay for legal representation than the disabled people who might try to sue” loophole, which seems to allow many companies to be lax about fulfilling ADA requirements, unfortunately.