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kube-system 4 days ago

Thank you ADA. One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.

fortran77 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US. Maybe one day we can have a legal environment where we can make progress like that again.

It was signed into law in on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. I hope you get to see a progressive man like George H.W. Bush in the White House again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...

kube-system 3 days ago | parent [-]

Honestly, yes. Something like this today would be called “woke” or “socialist”.

thaumasiotes 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> One of the great progressive legal breakthroughs in the US.

The ADA is not a good thing. It's best known recently for forcing UC Berkeley to take down the lectures they used to provide over the internet for free. But it's been having very negative effects since it was enacted.

kube-system 14 hours ago | parent [-]

That's an example of the ADA doing exactly what it should. UC Berkeley is a public institution that receives billions of dollars of taxpayer funding and free land to provide a education for the benefit of the public, and that includes people with disabilities. They can spare a few dollars to make sure someone puts the damn alt tags on content so it works with a screenreader.