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by Someone1234 2611 days ago
As another enterprise software developer we've been told by legal that we must be accessible per the ADA and that doing otherwise could be used to claim we discriminate (hostile work environment) against our disabled employees.

Title 1:

> Employers must provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants or employees. A reasonable accommodation is any modification or adjustment to a job or the work environment that will enable an applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the application process or to perform essential job functions.

With our software handling timecards/leave, inventory, reporting, payroll, etc it isn't realistic for us to claim someone could perform their "essential job function" if it weren't accessible.

That all being said: Our accessibility game isn't perfect. We've just tried to make pages work with screen readers, color-blindness, etc. We still have a lot of internal video content without subtitles however (or even a way to display subtitles).