by Sarah Kaufman (Patch Staff), 29 July 2016
Disability rights advocates are filing suit on behalf of blind New York residents who say the kiosks are not accessible to them.
A disability rights group filed a complaint Thursday against the city for creating WiFi kiosks across the city that are inaccessible to the blind. The LinkNYC program is gradually installing 7,500 kiosks across the five boroughs in place of old pay phones, but the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates says blind people are unable to use them.
The complaint was filed on behalf of several blind New Yorkers who can't use the kiosks and the National Federation of the Blind against the city's information and technology department, its commissioner Anne Roest, and CityBridge LLC, the consortium of three companies that makes the kiosks.
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A disability rights group filed a complaint Thursday against the city for creating WiFi kiosks across the city that are inaccessible to the blind. The LinkNYC program is gradually installing 7,500 kiosks across the five boroughs in place of old pay phones, but the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates says blind people are unable to use them.
The complaint was filed on behalf of several blind New Yorkers who can't use the kiosks and the National Federation of the Blind against the city's information and technology department, its commissioner Anne Roest, and CityBridge LLC, the consortium of three companies that makes the kiosks.
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