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

Brian W King bking at impact-technologies.com
Mon Oct 7 09:04:02 CDT 2002


Contrary to the belief of many web coders, there has never been a court
judgment that creates a statute regarding Internet content and the ADA.
There have, on the contrary, been several cases lodged against web content
providers such as AOL that have been settled out of court.  This may get up
some dander here, but the prevailing opinion in the legal arena seems to be
that the only way the web content will fall under the ADA regulations is if
Congress actually amends the law.  Remember, the law in the US is based on
intent of the law not necessarily the letter of it.  The Internet was not
even a coined word at the time that the ADA regulations were conceived.
Several judges have made statements in cases that were eventually settled
out of court that, because Title III nor the ADA access guidelines directly
addressed, the cannot be required to conform to any access standards.

Read the facts here in the following article on law.com.  (beware of the URL
wrap).
http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&
c=LawArticle&cid=1032128683422&t=LawArticleTech







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