Speaking of accessible stores, I think this is a far better use of the NFB's time--creating an accessibility standard for supermarkets and department stores and drug stores, etc.--than trying to regulate how apps and virtual environments are accessible. Every blind person has to shop--not every blind person has to use a computer or cell phone. Furthermore, the status quo doesn't change if all computers and all apps are accessible, because it's still usually the agencies which are buying said equipment for the blind end-user. This is a top-down approach to a rock-bottom problem. I don't have much use for the NFB either, but for them to pick on technology when this attack only further cements the reliance of blind people on commissions and agencies seems a bit over the top. Whenever I walk down the street to the supermarket, I'm reduced to the status of a child by the inaccessibility of the products, but I can come home and teach programming and app operation? Come on.
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