[thelist] Does the Americans with Disabilities, ADA, act pertain to Internet Content?

John Handelaar john at evolt.org.uk
Mon Oct 7 09:15:22 CDT 2002


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% Contrary to the belief of many web coders, there has never been a court
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% providers such as AOL that have been settled out of court.

Which is what this is about:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/10/06/2340204.shtml?tid=103

Test cases are necessary, and they have to go to a verdict
before you get precedent.

I, for one, am rather hoping that this scores.  The spirit
of the law in this case is clear.  The letter supports
that interpretation when/if a court cements a precedent.

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