Conversation

Notices

Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Jan-2021 19:42:19 UTC Adrian Cochrane

Report – Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination? - Center for Democracy & Technology: https://cdt.org/insights/report-algorithm-driven-hiring-tools-innovative-recruitment-or-expedited-disability-discrimination/
In conversation Wednesday, 13-Jan-2021 19:42:19 UTC from floss.social permalink
Attachments
1. Report – Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination? - Center for Democracy and Technology
  
  from Elizabeth Seeger
  
  As algorithm-driven hiring tools have spread in adoption, so, too, has the risk of discrimination written invisibly into their codes. For people with disabilities, those risks can be profound. The Americans with Disabilities Act has explicit prohibitions against the use of hiring processes that discriminate on the basis of disability, but many algorithm-driven hiring tools fall far short of these standards. This paper seeks to highlight how hiring tools may affect people with disabilities, the legal liability employers may face for using such tools, and concrete steps for employers and vendors to mitigate some of the most significant areas of concern.
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira repeated this.
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 20:41:39 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira
  in reply to
  
  @alcinnz I don't like those either, first because they generally require use of something that is not #FreeSoftware, autoexecuted through the @Web #Browser using #JavaScript.
  Second, I have monocular sight and color blindness, so I expect webpages to respect my system-wide text font and size choices. The less images the better too. Using images to make tables is bad also, a way to make me fail a timed logic test.
  
  In conversation Thursday, 14-Jan-2021 20:41:39 UTC permalink
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:29:38 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira
  
  @resynth1943 @alcinnz Don't worry, I never said to avoid all use of #JavaScript. Being also a #JS liberator (I foster and, when called and when resources allow me to, I help websites implement changes to comply with #LibreJS), I like it very much. At the same time, I'm of the opinion that the less autoexecuted client-side scripting, the better.
  
  In conversation Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:29:38 UTC permalink
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:38:32 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira
  
  @resynth1943 @alcinnz For disabled people, zooming works for text only if: nothing invades the view/scroll; no position or distance is set by the style in a way that makes text kerning and line margins collide if using big text; everything uses default overflow/scrollbar.
  
  In conversation Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:38:32 UTC permalink
- Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:43:46 UTC Adonay Felipe Nogueira
  
  @resynth1943 @alcinnz Zooming doesn't work for most images.
  Even that, most timed logic tests seem to transmit text data using images, making text unselectable.
  
  In conversation Friday, 15-Jan-2021 13:43:46 UTC permalink

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds