Bad, Verizon, Bad!

Verizon is interpreting some ADA rules to mean that if you dial 9-1-1 on your cell phone, the phone should go off loudly and be unmutable.

See details: http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/110907kvueverizonalarm-bm.1f46e16ee.html

I was thinking about writing something here about using 508 and accessibility to make your site better, not turning into the "text-only ghetto", but, you know what? It's 11:11 PM on a Sunday. I'm going to watch scrubs... you can fill in the essay.

Imagine five paragraphs, lovingly spellchecked, on using accessibility to make your products easier for everyone to use with examples like pregnant women finding larger bathroom stalls easier to use, or loaded down shoppers finding ramps easier to navigate than stairs, or web site surfers trying to use fly out menus with one of those keyboard eraser-stub mice....