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View submission: Accessibility Updates to Mod Tools: Part 1
I don't understand what the issue is. I thought people wanted them to address accessibility, here they are doing it,
At this point, if reddit says something, people want proof of it. They've been gaslighting people for months on the API and app situations.
There's zero reason for anyone to trust that they're addressing accessibility given the call with mods of /r/blind, the transcribers of reddit debacle, and the current state of the app. They're arguably in violation of the ADA *now*, and "we're working on it" isn't good enough a week before the API changes.
Comment by therealdanhill at 24/06/2023 at 20:28 UTC
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I kind of feel like they shouldn't announce they are working on anything beforehand if people think it's just made up or whatever and only want proof. Do you think the things they posted here are a lie?
Look, I don't know what everyone here's experience with large tech companies is, and I'm not going to say every tech company is the same, but at least from my experience I am no stranger to the finance to dev pipeline. I have had outstanding requests for pretty important things, or at least important to me or my department for things to be fixed or adjusted for *years*, routinely. It seems to me like people just think these things happen and don't take considerable time to be done or done correctly. **Especially when your company is not profitable**, which reddit has stated it is not. I have little doubt there is a lot of accessibility work in their queue they would love to address, but their finance department would have to approve those being worked on, and there may be other priorities that need to be addressed first to even be able to continue to sustain or grow enough to get to accessibility. Businesses are almost always going to prioritize projects targeting revenue first but especially so when they aren't profitable.
That is also a weighty claim that they are in violation of the ADA, I have not heard that before, is there a credible legal authority that has claimed there is a case there?