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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Oct 20, 2019 11:45AM

Hello Peter,
To be frank, I think what is needed in the U.S. is legislation. If this
lawyer can help with drafting a bill that would update the ADA to cover
digital apps, that would be the best use of their time.
I think that the fact that I can't find a single 401K provider or PSA
solution that is easy to use with a screen reader is a crime. The fact that
when I go into a company and their payroll and timekeeping systems are
extremely difficult to use, even as an expert screen reader user, is also a
problem.
Web developers are kicking and screaming, for some strange reason, against
using basic HTML, and I don't think websites that are only full of divs
should be allowed on the internet.
I'm sure if this lawyer sat down with experts and users from this
community, we could come up with some method to really tackle the problem
of exclusion that web developers have created.

I think the high level of technical knowledge needed to navigate
inaccessible interfaces by screen reader users, to even work in the most
basic job, is one reason why we have such a high level of unemployment for
blind people.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;


On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:13 AM Peter Shikli < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> After learning about the work we do to help the internet become more
> accessible, a lawyer friend asked me a question I couldn't answer. What
> exactly could a lawyer do to help the disabled?
>
> Of course he could do any number of things for free, but in his
> experience free is often too close to worthless, or at least the
> perception on the part of the recipient. He's been around long enough
> that he doesn't need to pencil out a new profit center. He's definitely
> not an ambulance chaser, in fact, he sees some of what he calls drive-by
> lawsuits as being morally challenged.
>
> So, in your experience, where could a lawyer do the most good for the
> disabled, perhaps an underserved angle to add to his practice -- and how
> should he go about getting into that?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter Shikli
> Access2online
> Wilsonville, OR 97070
> www.access2online.com
> Prison inmates helping the internet become accessible
>
>
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