[HN Gopher] Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to mak...
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       Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to make websites ADA
       compliant
        
       Author : danso
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-05-13 12:01 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nbcnews.com)
        
       | etrabroline wrote:
       | >Shir Ekerling who's from Tel Aviv in Israel. Now Shir is a very
       | interesting self-taught software developer whose passion has
       | become business. Now isn't that the most awesome place to play,
       | where passion and business and your life intersect and play out
       | to be the place where you create and share with the world.
       | 
       | >Jeff Bullas: Now Shir started a range of companies but the
       | recent one he's just launched which has raised over 12 million
       | from one of the top capital firms in the world is with a company
       | called accessiBe
       | 
       | https://www.jeffbullas.com/podcasts/33-making-the-web-access...
       | 
       | Here is an interview with the founder.
       | 
       | >in the army when I was thinking about the next thing that I've
       | got to build when I'm released
       | 
       | I'm not really comfortable with Israeli companies run by former
       | IDF soldiers injecting code into thousands of websites.
       | 
       | https://archive.org/details/CensoredIsraeliSoftwareSpyingOnU...
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       | >adding a single line of code to the backends of websites.
       | AccessiBe also offers support for websites that are sued and
       | claims to bring them into compliance. The company boasts that
       | over 132,000 websites use its product
        
         | blacksmith_tb wrote:
         | Not that you're wrong, but think of the hundreds/thousands of
         | 3rd party scripts that are injected into the pages of every
         | commercial web property you visit - what are the backgrounds of
         | all of the devs who wrote them...
        
       | VeninVidiaVicii wrote:
       | It's pretty unsettling the aim is to prevent getting sued - not
       | actually help blind people. Compliance companies like AccessiBe
       | are just scamming both sides.
        
         | otoburb wrote:
         | The aim of the ADA is to give teeth and grounds for legal
         | action to encourage accessibility. One of these methods is
         | damages and penalties.
         | 
         | What is more interesting is that AccessiBe is the target of
         | such suits and not the site owners using AccessbiBe.
        
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