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re: Berkeley removes 20,000 free online videos to comply with DOJ ruling
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:33 pm to GEAUXT
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:33 pm to GEAUXT
Is Berkeley also required to provide a sign language interpreter for every physical class for that has a deaf person enrolled? If not this seems like selective application of the law which should be tossed out.
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Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:33 pm to GEAUXT
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Two employees of Gallaudet University—a school for the deaf in Washington, D.C.—filed a complaint with DOJ alleging that Berkeley's online content was inaccessible to the hearing-disabled community.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:33 pm to CoachChappy
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Kids are covered under the ADA for things like ADHD and Behavior disorders including "explosive disorder" and Oppositional Defiance disorder" which means they dont like authority. These kids learn that they can't be disciplined for their crappy behavior. Once they leave school, many if not most of them end up in someone's jail or someone's grave yard. I'm not speaking from experience with both.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:34 pm to SlowFlowPro
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ADA
A bigger frick up by GHWB that "read my lips" ever was.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:40 pm to CoachChappy
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I can tell you that in some instances, the DA has done a lot of good, but in others, it has ruined lives. Kids are covered under the ADA for things like ADHD and Behavior disorders including "explosive disorder" and Oppositional Defiance disorder" which means they dont like authority. These kids learn that they can't be disciplined for their crappy behavior. Once they leave school, many if not most of them end up in someone's jail or someone's grave yard.
That's the parent's fault. Not the ADA.
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I'm not speaking from experience with both.
No shite
Posted on 3/8/17 at 1:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
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ADA is the best "feel good" legislation that has led to simply terrible results in reality
It wasn't cheap but my kids love riding the wheelchair lift when they come to the office with me. All 2.5' of it.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:05 pm to MikeBRLA
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Using that "logic", the entire internet should be taken down. Since it's not really accessible to blind people.
Not true. There are assistive technologies such as screen readers that can be installed on a computer that will read the content out oud to visually impaired users.
Section 508 of the ADA covers making electronic content available to those with hearing and visual difficulties (includes having captions or transcripts of audio, including alternate descriptive text for images, etc.)
I want to say Target got in trouble a few years back for not having sufficient alt text for images on their website.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:09 pm to GEAUXT
That is extremely selfish on their part. Why do you want to hinder another person's learning and progress just because you have a disability? I know it isn't fair that some were born that way or may have had an accident later on, but you shouldn't want to hold everyone else back because of it. Very selfish
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:11 pm to SlowFlowPro
Title III cases solely for attorneys' fees are an absolute scam. Especially considering some circuits have sanctioned test cases.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:19 pm to High C
frick both sides. Berkeley can eat a f'ing D, and the ADA administration should be wheeled into a lake.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:35 pm to chinhoyang
It's always fun in NOLA when you get a head to head between ADA advocates and preservationists. There's a suit out there right now against the RTA because the green streetcars aren't wheelchair accessible. Never mind the damn things were built in the 20's.
This post was edited on 3/8/17 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:37 pm to BigSquirrel
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Berkeley can eat a f'ing D, and the ADA administration should be wheeled into a lake.
Basically how I see it.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 2:46 pm to BigSquirrel
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frick both sides. Berkeley can eat a f'ing D, and the ADA administration should be wheeled into a lake.
Good assessment. Two friends of mine years ago opened up a garden center. Their 20X30 foot office was about two feet off the ground on concrete blocks. Because of being a public building, The ADA made them put in a ramp.
Exactly how many people in wheelchairs go to outdoor garden centers you reckon? A few probably but not enough to put the boys out to build a damn ramp. One told me a few years later that in the three years he was part owner not one wheelchair customer ever showed up.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 3:09 pm to RandySavage
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Double bonus that's 20,000 leftist propaganda videos out of circulation.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:03 pm to chinhoyang
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Small antique store remodels, has to put in braille signs for the bathrooms.
I have often wondered how a blind person finds the signs. It seems like it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. All that space and area and the sign is what 12x12"....
Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:06 pm to GEAUXT
I felt a little bad changing the upvotes from the glorious 69 to a mundane 70.
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Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:08 pm to GEAUXT
thank you liberal idiots for one more act of "helping" people by suing over BS like this and hurting everyone over 0.0000001% who had an issue with something.
but then its Berkley so most likely all the videos were filled with anti America and anti common sense propaganda so......
but then its Berkley so most likely all the videos were filled with anti America and anti common sense propaganda so......
Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:09 pm to Chuker
How about 20,000 people do something about it, each watch a video and transcribe it?
Win, win, win.
Win, win, win.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:11 pm to GEAUXT
By this logic, wouldn't Berkley's website be discrimination against the blind? Chalk boards, presentations, etc. They should probably cancel sports programs just in case.
Posted on 3/8/17 at 4:12 pm to MikeBRLA
quote:Thank GOD! for the braille tour at Babydolls!
Using that "logic", the entire internet should be taken down. Since it's not really accessible to blind people.
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