HomeMy WebLinkAbout020825 email - PUBLIC COMMENT_ JAC survey violates ADAALERT: BE CAUTIOUS This email originated outside the organization. Do not open attachments or click on links if you are not expecting them.
Commissioners,
If the Jeffco Aquatic Coalition (JAC) were a public agency, it would be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act for the survey that it is using to promote their pool project.
The “captcha-like” verification used in that survey does not have the audio alternative required by ADA.
The fact that the county has apparently allowed its official seal to be placed on this flawed survey is disturbing; doesn’t anyone at the county pay any attention to the legality of
what’s being done in its name?
Then, there is the outright lie told by the JAC representative at the BoCC, who stated that all responses on the survey would be optional and that the age question would only be used
(if entered) to select which additional portions of the survey would be presented to the respondent.
Note also that the survey is hosted by a non-US company.
Zoho Corporation Private Limited
an Indian multinational technology company
Global headquarters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Zoho is not an outfit that should be trusted for the official business of any public agency in our country.
Then, there’s this: [ its’ ] Really??? Careless work, at best.
The survey is obviously biased, as one would expect from any work product of an advocacy group; the results will untrustable.
The questions asked about which amenities might be included a new facility are particularly offensive for two reasons: (1) there are no price tags associated with any of the options
and (2) most of the added amenities would be in direct competition with existing private businesses and would actually harm county and city revenues. How much harm is the county trying
to do to those exercise clubs, yoga studios, et al and for what possible reasons?
The manner by which this survey was developed, distributed, and deployed is yet another of the county’s several missteps in its fervor to build a pool “by any means necessary”.
Do better, please.
Tom Thiersch
Jefferson County, WA