Hi to all.

While there have been a few positive lower Court rulings on this matter, the questions of whether and how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to websites have not, to date, made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Because blind people are a very small minority with relatively little money and because sighted people tend to write websites intended to look cool to other sighted people and because not all blind people are experts on using the technological tools available to them and because all of the available technology for reading the web do not have the same capabilities (think of the differences between Mac and Windows access),, I would expect a continued growth in the number of partially and totally inaccessible websites for the foreseeable future.
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Ted Chittenden

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---- Rachel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
Can anyone tell me if private companies/Web sites are legally required 
to be accessible?  I'm coming across more and more sites lately that 
once were accessible but aren't anymore due to changes recently made to 
them.  Do I have a right to threaten these companies with legal action 
if they don't make their sites accessible?  I'm assuming so, as Target, 
Southwest Airlines, and so many others have been forced to make their 
sites accessible.

Any guidance on how I might proceed would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Rachel


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