It’s about time!
I’ve just heard via the email grape vine that a district court judge has ordered the Social Security Administration (SSA) to begin sending out notices in Braille or audio. What a concept. think of the potential for the agency to become a trend setter. Consider the potential for increasing accessibility across the entire government if SSA put into practice a system for automatically converting organizational prose into alternate formats. That system could be expanded to include other agencies.
Any federal (or state agency for that matter) which communicates with visually impaired customers should already be doing this. Perhaps a mandate of this magnitude will push our government toward a more full application of the principles embodied in the ADA.
What’s next? accessible currency?