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Subject: Accessibility watershed?
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:00:13 -0000
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URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/06.html#accessibility_watershed
Date: 2002-10-06T23:41:43-05:00
_Law.com_: Suit Over Airlines' Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA[1]. [via Slashdot:
Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA[2]]
Gumson and a Miami Beach, Fla.- based disability rights group, Access Now,
filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Miami in June and July against
Dallas- based Southwest and Dallas-based American Airlines under the
Americans with Disabilities Act. They are doing so under an untested legal
theory. Namely, that ADA provisions on the accessibility of public
accommodations to the disabled apply to Internet Web sites just as they do
to brick-and-mortar facilities like movie theaters and department stores.
Five months ago, I said[3] “within the next 12 months, all web authoring
tools will fully embrace CSS, accessibility, and web standards. And I mean
fully, inside and out, as Macromedia appears to have done here [with
Dreamweaver MX]. Those tools that do not will simply fall by the wayside. This
is the new baseline.” Seven months to go on that prediction. Tick tock,
tick tock...
[1] http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1032128683422&t=LawArticleTech
[2] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/2340204
[3] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/02.html#the_new_baseline
dive into mark, May 2, 2002: