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April 7, 2023
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ADA Compliance

  • April 7, 2023
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I was part of a discussion on ADA Compliance but apparently Nancy O'Shea immediately locked the thread after ranting. That's not good.

 

Nancy,

Why are you so angry?

This is an issue where the disabled can benefit from ADA-compliant software.

The ADA is not just about websites.

 

Section 508 - biz will have a hard time providing DW for their disabled employees.

As stated, brick-n-mortar stores including B2B are not websites but subject to the ADA law.

Ask Netflix about that. They are not a real website per se. Dreamweaver in the cloud, well let the courts decide.

 

So, if Adobe would listen and adjust their software that is difficult in places, they would succeed even better than having Nancy grumble about not caring about the disabled and protecting Adobe. After all, the adjustment in their app is not that big of a deal to modify.

 

How about working with others and making a change for the better of society?

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    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Legend
    April 17, 2023

    why not let people express themselves... and even if the conversation would become a lounge room chatter... whatever... anyway, if the conversation is exhausting you, why not simply ignore it, and just let it pass, after all the filters exist, ignore it. ... you don't know how many times I don't even open emails, just by seeing a topic, or the name of the person who just posted... lol... not even an ounce of Judeo-Christian guilt-tripping thought...

     

    well just to add a layer... and get back to the main topic of this thread... sometimes the question is not about legislating a consideration, but rather about individual or group involvement, to see how the integration and consideration, in the broadest sense, of everyone's expectations, can be amended in the tools are they for governmental use, or not ... just to improve the daily lives of the greatest number in their uses for tools they pay for.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 16, 2023

      This reads an awful lot like chatGPT pre-spam. Only it's not as well informed.

       

      Dreamweaver does not have to be ADA compliant.  No software does.  Only brick & motar buildings do.  And section 508 guidelines only apply to software built for use by government agencies.

       

      Can we please end this topic now?  I'm sooooooo done with this.

       

       

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 7, 2023

      I'm not angry. 

       

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      B i r n o u
      B i r n o u
      Legend
      April 8, 2023
      quote
      • As I said, Dreamweaver is NOT a website; it's software.
      By @Nancy OShea

       

      I am interested in this debate, please let me ask two questions.

       

      1 - Does this mean that Section 508 does not include software as part of ADA compliance but only websites that need to comply?

      2 - I have always believed that Section 508 requires software to be accessible to people with disabilities, especially when provided by federal agencies. So, what if Dreamweaver is used by a communications department (well, through a CC account) in a government agency?

        Nancy OShea
        Community Expert
        Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        April 9, 2023

        ADA (The Americans with Disabilities Act) differs from section 508. 

         

        The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990. The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public. The purpose of the law is to make sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. The ADA gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities similar to those provided to individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion. It guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations, employment, transportation, state and local government services, and telecommunications. The ADA is divided into five titles (or sections) that relate to different areas of public life.

         

        Title I = Equal Employment Opportunity

        Title II = State & Local Government

        Title III = Public Accomodations (schools, stadiums, public transit, restrooms, etc...)

        Title IV = Telecommunications & Broadcasting (phones, closed captioning, regulated by the FCC)

         

        In 1998, Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities. The law (29 U.S.C § 794 (d)) applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Under Section 508, agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information comparable to the access available to others.  Section 508 includes forms, applications, help files, online documentation, manuals, PDF, Doc, RTF, etc...

        https://www.section508.gov/manage/laws-and-policies/#508-policy

         

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