{"id":5512,"date":"2020-08-14T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2020-08-14T16:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:51:33","slug":"thanks-for-the-shout-out-lainey-a-website-plug-in-followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/?p=5512","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the shout-out Lainey &#8211; a website plug-in followup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5513\" src=\"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lainey-Feingold-e1597423678965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" \/>Lainey Feingold, a long time and well know advocate for those with disabilities, referred to my earlier blog on website plug-ins* that promise accessibility in her latest blog.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lflegal.com\/2020\/08\/quick-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HONOR THE ADA: AVOID WEB ACCESSIBILITY QUICK-FIX OVERLAYS.<\/a>\u00a0That was nice, but even better was the way she collected other sources on website plug-ins and their problems, making her blog well worth reading for anyone interested in this subject. Of course no matter how much you study the situation the conclusion is always the same &#8211; you can&#8217;t make a website accessible with a plug-in and you certainly can&#8217;t avoid lawsuits with a plug-in. Businesses need relief from lawsuits that do nothing to promote accessibility and drain resources away from remediation, but that relief isn&#8217;t going to come in the form of doing almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>* \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/?p=5378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is there a silver bullet for ADA website accessibility? Sorry, but the answer is no.<\/a><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\"><\/script><script type=\"in\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/?p=5512\"><\/script><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Feingold, a long time and well know advocate for those with disabilities, referred to my earlier blog on website plug-ins* that promise accessibility in her latest blog.\u00a0HONOR THE ADA: AVOID WEB ACCESSIBILITY QUICK-FIX OVERLAYS.\u00a0That was nice, but even better was the way she collected other sources on website plug-ins and their problems, making her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,161,116,544],"tags":[238,442,531,676],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ada","category-ada-internet","category-ada-internet-web","category-ada-website-accessibility","tag-ada-defense","tag-fha-defense","tag-lainey-feingold","tag-website-plug-ins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BooO-1qU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessdefense.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}