I am very familiar with ADA requirements. The last 8-10 years that I worked before I retired was spent almost exclusively re-modeling retail stores to comply with the ADA laws. Our main client was a very large (inter)national chain and it was very pro-active concerning the U.S. ADA.
The ADA laws are
much more intrusive and far-reaching than most people are aware of and they effect
anyone that wants to do business with the public in any way; and it only takes one person to complain to set a bureaucratic investigation into motion. Whenever I try to convey to someone just how strict, rigid, and uncompromising these laws can be I am usually met with disbelief and written off as an alarmist. This has happened on this board, in other threads where this subject has come up.
I don't see any library or educational e-reader program succeeding until the manufacturers comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines the NFB mention, at least not on a large scale. Some smaller districts may succeed ..... until that one person complains.
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Fortunately, ADA has limits.
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Not many.
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That may be grandfathered since they were doing it before the ADA was passed.
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There is no such thing as a grandfather clause anywhere in the ADA. I know this from personal experience, having fought a losing battle with the DOJ over it on one project.
My experience with ADA may have been centered on building/construction issues and not technology but I say ..... you don't spend years looking at and searching thru the ADA rule books on a daily basis without running across and perusing the sections dealing with other issues.