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ADA Doesn't Apply to Web
djmoore writes "A federal judge has ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does not apply to the Web. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz dismissed with prejudice a suit demanding that Southwest Airlines make its website more accessible to the blind, saying that the suit would create new rights for the disabled without setting appropriate standards. Judge Seitz also rejected plaintiffs' claim that the Web is a 'place of exhibition, display, and a sales establishment,' one of the twelve categories covered by the ADA, on the grounds that the law only covers physical places." Our original article has more details.
Were you born that stupid, or did you have to work to do it? Or do you honestly believe that there are no blind people who are using computers?
Or fining a state's highway commission for putting curves in highways, thus making it difficult if not impossible for blind folks to drive successfully.
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Tsk. Tsk. So tasteless.
But I *do* wonder if the ADA problems vis a vis the web have more to do with the inability of screen readers to successfully parse complex pages than with "defiant" pages that refuse to limit themselves to simple "See Bob run. Bob runs fast" type text.
Who the fuck made text-based browsers king? Who the fuck says it *has* to be displayed on Lynx?
Why aren't people bitching at JAWS and other screen reading software to fucking GET WITH IT and understand that technology is a complex beast.
I sure as heck know that "lynx" compatibility is not the end-goal of any of the web's future vectors
You can do what you want on the web.
Its not "about" sharing information.
Its about doing what you fucking want, got it?
Dont you come on here and tell me what I must do with my web access: Ill share the information I want in the way I want, and if I choose not to share any information at all, then I shall be respected for that decision.
Christ, the hyprocricy around here is laughable.
"Were all for freedom, but if you dont use open source and share your information with blind people we call you names".
loply.com
you fool. My mother is legally blind and she is using the web now. such a damn pain.
You will find in general that the things that help the legally blind are the same things good webmasters will be doing anyway. Anyone that gets too happy with the frames and and over nests their pages, and presents text as pictures or FLASH does not deserve their website read by anyone.
Text is bandwidth friendly. She just made an ignorant ruleing. I bet shes republican. Conservative. What garbage.