People are using the ADA to sue companies for apps/sites that discriminate

I’m not familiar with the type of software mentioned in the article.
Is it simply an issue of Dominoes making their website compliant such that reading software is compatible with it?

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ADA could be the worst legislation ever to come out of Congress

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Unless you have a serious disability like being blind or paraplegic.

The ADA made beeping crosswalks a thing. And wheel chair ramps. And allowing blind people to have service dogs in restaurants just to name a few.

It was born with good intent and it was needed when it was passed but, as with all things the government touches, it has become a bloated bureaucratic shite show.

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Is it simply an issue of Dominoes making their website compliant such that reading software is compatible with it?

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The Plaintiff wants to make it seem like it's that simple, but it's not.

With the complexity of modern eCommerce websites these days, it's simply unrealistic to expect the software will be able to process those web pages correctly.

I mean he can pick up his phone and call or show up in person, so it's not like he's being prohibited from access to Domino's solely because of his disability.

HOW ON EARTH CAN BLIND PEOPLE USE PHONES AND COMPUTERS UNILATERALLY ANYWAY? If I’m SCOTUS, I reverse the appeals court without question.

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It was born with good intent and it was needed when it was passed but, as with all things the government touches, it has become a bloated bureaucratic shite show

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Road to Hell is paved with good intentions

Or he could just call in his order.

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The ADA made beeping crosswalks a thing. And wheel chair ramps. And allowing blind people to have service dogs in restaurants just to name a few.

It was born with good intent and it was needed when it was passed but, as with all things the government touches, it has become a bloated bureaucratic shite show

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Couple of my favorite examples of 'unintended consquences' of ADA.

I work in the television industry. Both my former employer and my current one were constructing new facilities when the ADA went into effect.

One of the requirements of that my previous employer had to adhere to was that all signage had to include a Braille equivalent. My favorite was right below the "On Air" light leading into the studio, which read "DO NOT ENTER THIS STUDIO WHILE LIGHT IS FLASHING".

But it was the wheelchair accessibility requirements that cost my current employer dearly. The main production studio control room featured a 15-inch raised 'producers' platform' directly behind the switcher, so that producers and guests could watch a live show being put together without getting in the way of the director and other operators. Because the room was designed to minimize space, there wasn't sufficient room to add a wheelchair ramp that met ADA-required specifications for length and angle of ascent.

The only solution? Install a $75,000 motorized chair lift to raise the occupant the 15 inches in order to have access to the platform. It also required annual inspections by a state-certified elevator inspector (at a time when we had no other elevators in the building).

It was used once in 15 years, and only when we insisted that the only wheelchair-equipped guest use it because it had never been used before - it seems that he had a perfectly good view sitting right next to the platform rather than on top of it, but he complied just so we could say it had finally been put to use.

The following year, during an upgrade to the control room, we had contractors reconfigure the floor to eliminate the platform entirely, and remove the chair lift. Don't know how much that cost us.

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he 1990 law that requires businesses to make accommodations for those with disabilities

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they do, it is called calling the fricking place.