The reality is different. Before the ADA was implemented 55% of those with disabilities had jobs. A few years later only 45% had jobs. The missing 10% were looked at as lawsuits waiting to happen and not hired or let go for "other reasons".
I was against the ADA before it was passed into law. I am still against it except for title II. Ensuring that the government provides clear and effective communications from which those with disabilities can benefit can make government more understandable and accountable. Properly applied this emans that confusing government rules, regulations, and statutes must be written into simplified language. Those with learning disabilities or mental deficits must be able to understand what the government says. The end result will be the government has to provide clear and effective communications in all ways to all people. When simple language exists for the cognitively disabled it is available for everyone.
See 28 CFR section 35 subsections 130, 150, 160, and 164.
This is the kind of unfortunate mindset and distorted analysis we get from people who don't suffer from a disability or have family members who do. It's more along the lines of corporate right wing propaganda intended to sidestep these regulations and lower costs.
At least in the part of the country where I live we see more and more people with disabilities of all kinds engaged in gainful employment to the benefit of everyone and the reduction in public tax outlays and benefit provisions. Disabled people who would otherwise be on the public dole are instead earning a living, paying taxes and spending their incomes into the economy.
This discussion began with the popular joke about putting braille in drive-up ATMs which is really there so blind people can walk up to and use
any ATM. According to your thinking, blind people should be left to struggle because, "
Government regulations are not that helpful for most real life situations."
Where are you getting your employment statistics from anyway?
Links?
Why is that the only statistic you cite has to do with employment?
The issues with the ADA have revolved around compliance and enforcement, not the law itself. The ADA has had far reaching positive effects on countless people's lives
. For example, just ask anyone confined to a wheelchair how they feel about the requirement to provide curb cuts in sidewalks before and after the law was passed? Or access to buildings, elevators, transportation etc., for work, medical care, polling places, entertainment and many other activities that you obviously take for granted.