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View submission: API Updates & Questions
Blind moderator here: rollback and postpone these changes until you are in compliance with the Americans with disability act. That's it. There are no other terms and there is no negotiation or discussion. Third party apps will die because of this and your app is not in compliance. You will not do anything else until you are in compliance.
Knock this behavior off. It is ableism. I've already given quotes to two journalists over this and so have others. You are acting in bad, unreasonable faith.
You will not do a road map that has accessibility features sometime in the nebulous future where you can miss targets while killing apps that are providing those accessibility features.
I as a disabled moderator would like to be involved in this meeting.
EDIT: Thank you for gold, but please do not give a company committing ableism/discrimination against the disabled your money. Instead please donate your money to a charity for the disabled. My personal choice is the Marfan Foundation, but for a blind specific charity, the Seva Foundation is also a good option.
Comment by FertilityHollis at 05/06/2023 at 23:20 UTC
44 upvotes, 1 direct replies
rollback and postpone these changes until you are in compliance with the Americans with disability act. That's it. There are no other terms and there is no negotiation or discussion. Third party apps will die because of this and your app is not in compliance. You will not do anything else until you are in compliance.
I haven't previously been aware of these issues, but as soon as I saw this in the thread I thought, "Wait, isn't accessibility a legal requirement already?"
After a few minutes "research" (I skimmed one article) so, as is customary, I am now an expert on the subject. Seems pretty clear this is a liability. Given that going public is the impetus for the API changes, and accessibility is a known liability, I have to wonder if accessibility issues are addressed in the IPO prospectus. Added to which, if they are not noted as a liability, why not and isn't it required?
Whatever the case, I'm gobsmaked that Reddit in 2023 isn't compliant, and I'm behind you and the rest of Reddit's disabled users.