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Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to make websites ADA compliant
“If you have a website, do you want to include disabled people or do you want to exclude them? That’s why it’s a civil right,” one expert said.
Chancey Fleet, a technology educator who is vice president of National Federation of the Blind in New York, was invited to a private meeting with AccessiBe executives in February after she tweeted concerns about the product.Sara Naomi Lewkowicz / for NBC
May 9, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC
By April Glaser
Throughout the pandemic, as blind people, like everyone else, became increasingly dependent on websites to purchase goods, one of the fastest-growing companies that works with clients like Oreo cookies and Energizer batteries to make their websites more accessible has been engulfed in an increasingly contentious relationship with blind people. Many blind people say its product is making it harder for them to navigate the web.
In recent months, blind people and disability advocates have been speaking out on social media and suing companies that use [...]