16. I will never hire a disabled person, so I don’t have to comply with any accessibility requirements.
It is illegal under the ADA and the FEHA to discriminate in your hiring practices. In fact, this sort of thinking undermines the essential purpose of these laws that persons with disabilities have the opportunity to participate in all facets of public life and employment. Like most civil rights laws, the ADA and FEHA do not mandate an equality of outcome, but they do require an equality of opportunity. This is why these laws require commercial facilities built after passage of the ADA provide physical access to employee and common use areas of the facility and require business owners to provide a reasonable accommodation for employees and job applicants who have disabilities.
Whether or not you have employees with disabilities, you must serve members of the public with disabilities, and you must provide them "full and equal" access to your products, goods and services, and all the benefits of your business.
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