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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
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    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
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      • 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?

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        osgood_
        Legend
        April 11, 2023

        It seems to me that this discussion has taken a very different direction from its initial meaning, as often happens when a person expresses reluctance to answer the question they are asked. Let me rephrase the question: Dreamweaver, as a software, does not support accessibility (not just for the sites it allows to be developed, but as a tool itself). So what would be the context if an agency had to provide it to its teams? Several questions have diverted and provoked confusion, even though I have tried every time to refocus the debate by returning to point number 2. Despite this, every time the discussion returned to the discontinuity of DW...which is not the issue here.

         

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        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?

        By @B i r n o u

         

         


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        Let me rephrase the question: Dreamweaver, as a software, does not support accessibility (not just for the sites it allows to be developed, but as a tool itself). So what would be the context if an agency had to provide it to its teams?

         


        By @B i r n o u

         

         

        I'd say the agency must be full of 60+ zombies, simple.

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