The radical right’s MO is suppressing the voting capabilities of the American people and being cruel to as many people as possible, to as great an extent as is possible.
fairoaks2 on
The Department of Justice ignores more laws than they enforce.
curiousthoughts20 on
The Trump administration is simply cruel and inhumane.
groommypix on
Is this the make America great he promised?
temporynx on
This should be the must unfair administration to the needy and poor only the wealthy are making it from this administration
GarmaCyro on
Sorry. The current DOJ is too busy removing evidence of any and all illegal acts done by the current government.
That and being the DOJ’s secretary personal travel/vacation agency.
happyfunslide on
They expect them to die anyways.. All part of the master plan.
byedrive202 on
I am an employee at an affected state college, and while this perspective may be unpopular, my colleagues and I breathed a sigh of relief when the deadline was extended.
I fully support students with disabilities and make it a point to value every student. However, this rule is incredibly heavy-handed. It would immediately require me to bring thousands of pages of PDFs, lesson notes, quizzes, and lecture slides up to strict WCAG 2.1 web standards. Under the rule, if a document isn’t fully compliant, it must be removed. For example, even if I provide a fully captioned, compliant YouTube lesson video, I would be barred from posting a PDF copy of my handwritten lesson notes alongside it because the PDF itself isn’t compliant.
The best analogy I’ve heard is that this rule doesn’t just require a building to install an elevator for equal access; it mandates demolishing the stairs. While the intentions behind this rule change are noble, our current technical capabilities aren’t advanced enough to seamlessly convert complex STEM educational content into fully accessible formats quite yet.
Miiohau on
This is a problem that is not in question. I am just not sure it can be traced to Trump’s government. The rule was finalized in 2024 so Trump had been back in office for less than a year when the final rules were put into place. So unless something happened during his first term that caused a delay in creating the rule this isn’t Trump’s fault (for once). Once the rule was finalized it was on the state and local governments to get into compliance. This latest move by the DOJ happened because a number of state and local governments said they couldn’t get into compliance by the deadline that could have happened under any administration.
Now there are some factors that this story doesn’t report on that could put the blame back on republicans. One which states the complaints that caused the deadline pushback came from. Two why couldn’t they meet the deadline. I.e. did the put off compliance to the last minute. Basically did red areas come crying to Trump’s DOJ when they couldn’t finish the work they put off on time.
Now like I said this is a problem. No question. Even if the rule wasn’t finalized these government agencies should have already been thinking of and designing their systems with accessibly in mind and so it should have been just cleaning up some technical violations to be in full compliance with the rule. These government agencies didn’t think about people with disabilities and are needing to rush now but that doesn’t necessarily land on one party or the other but general ignorance of people with disabilities.
Ramzaki on
The government in Germany, in the 30’s, besides going after the jew, the queer, the gipsy or the progressives, also went after the disabled.
Mr-ReDiCulouZ on
How are the right-wing still blind to the similarities between the US Administration and Nazi Germany?
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The radical right’s MO is suppressing the voting capabilities of the American people and being cruel to as many people as possible, to as great an extent as is possible.
The Department of Justice ignores more laws than they enforce.
The Trump administration is simply cruel and inhumane.
Is this the make America great he promised?
This should be the must unfair administration to the needy and poor only the wealthy are making it from this administration
Sorry. The current DOJ is too busy removing evidence of any and all illegal acts done by the current government.
That and being the DOJ’s secretary personal travel/vacation agency.
They expect them to die anyways.. All part of the master plan.
I am an employee at an affected state college, and while this perspective may be unpopular, my colleagues and I breathed a sigh of relief when the deadline was extended.
I fully support students with disabilities and make it a point to value every student. However, this rule is incredibly heavy-handed. It would immediately require me to bring thousands of pages of PDFs, lesson notes, quizzes, and lecture slides up to strict WCAG 2.1 web standards. Under the rule, if a document isn’t fully compliant, it must be removed. For example, even if I provide a fully captioned, compliant YouTube lesson video, I would be barred from posting a PDF copy of my handwritten lesson notes alongside it because the PDF itself isn’t compliant.
The best analogy I’ve heard is that this rule doesn’t just require a building to install an elevator for equal access; it mandates demolishing the stairs. While the intentions behind this rule change are noble, our current technical capabilities aren’t advanced enough to seamlessly convert complex STEM educational content into fully accessible formats quite yet.
This is a problem that is not in question. I am just not sure it can be traced to Trump’s government. The rule was finalized in 2024 so Trump had been back in office for less than a year when the final rules were put into place. So unless something happened during his first term that caused a delay in creating the rule this isn’t Trump’s fault (for once). Once the rule was finalized it was on the state and local governments to get into compliance. This latest move by the DOJ happened because a number of state and local governments said they couldn’t get into compliance by the deadline that could have happened under any administration.
Now there are some factors that this story doesn’t report on that could put the blame back on republicans. One which states the complaints that caused the deadline pushback came from. Two why couldn’t they meet the deadline. I.e. did the put off compliance to the last minute. Basically did red areas come crying to Trump’s DOJ when they couldn’t finish the work they put off on time.
Now like I said this is a problem. No question. Even if the rule wasn’t finalized these government agencies should have already been thinking of and designing their systems with accessibly in mind and so it should have been just cleaning up some technical violations to be in full compliance with the rule. These government agencies didn’t think about people with disabilities and are needing to rush now but that doesn’t necessarily land on one party or the other but general ignorance of people with disabilities.
The government in Germany, in the 30’s, besides going after the jew, the queer, the gipsy or the progressives, also went after the disabled.
How are the right-wing still blind to the similarities between the US Administration and Nazi Germany?
Or is it that they just don’t care?