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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Update your website for Disability Act regulations. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#SmallBusinessAmerica: Update your website for Disability Act regulations. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/small-business-web-accessibility-lawsuits-c910f6fb?mod=mhp

1913 GETTYSBURG ENCAMPMENT

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:05.9

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

0:10.2

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat, keep everyone's plans alive when you travel

0:27.4

with us.

0:28.4

P, and O'Ferees, there is another way.

0:30.0

I'm John Bess with my colleague colleague Jean Marks who writes for the Guardian newspaper,

0:35.8

UK and US edition, the Philadelphia Inquire and other distinguished publications.

0:39.7

We go now to something I was unaware of. This is a W.S.J. article that small business

0:46.0

don't know they're facing lawsuits. How do you find out, Gene? Well first of all

0:50.4

I'm going to, this is in the Wall Street Journal profile

0:57.3

on the law firm, John, that is going after small businesses with lawsuits, thousands of lawsuits against thousands of

1:07.2

small businesses because their websites are not accessible for people with disabilities.

1:14.6

The American for Disabilities Act has specific rules in it

1:19.1

about what businesses need to be doing

1:21.1

to make their businesses accessible to people that are

1:23.0

disabled like for example having a handicap rap for people to ramp for people to come in

1:28.3

you know or or aids for people that might be blind or deaf. Well, the same applies to your website.

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