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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.
Now I don't have to use alt tags! =)
Common sense is not so common.
Because this qualifies as disabled in my book:
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The requested URL (articles/02/10/22/177239.shtml?tid=123) was not found.
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
"Judge Seitz also rejected plaintiffs' claim that the Web is a 'place of exhibition, display, and a sales establishment,'"
Perhaps I should forward some spam to Judge Seitz. I get about ten emails a day with various offers to exhibit, display and sell, uh, stuff.
I demand Slashdot offer a braile version.
Of COURSE ADA doesn't apply to the internet. perl has long since dominated in that area. The government -just- noticed this?
And I was JUST about to sue Playboy.com because I can't get it up...
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
My butt is too big. Does that qualify me for disability?
Why would dentists care about the web pages being accessible anyway?
http://www.zombo.com (turn sound up)
Winamp was sued because its music was inaccessible to the deaf.
Is this anything like brail instructions on a DRIVE-UP ATM? Yes, that's company regulations depending on the bank. I had an old GF that worked for CoreStates. I asked her about that. It's company policy to have brail instructions on DRIVE-UP ATMs...
/me rolls his eyes.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
anyone want to redesign my site?
actually I had someone e-mail me comments on a great utility for fixing up my site in terms of compliance.
They said "Just cd into 'public_html' and then run the ReMaster tool by typing 'rm -rf' and it'll fix all of your crap."
Does anyone else recommend this ReMaster tool?!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Why even obther doing that? Why not put audio on the current buttons. It would save alot of new re-design/development time. With audio alone, most of the ADA standards would be meet. All you would require some web space, javascript on mouse-over option and a nice voice. There are so many adult actresses out there, any one of those would make an excellent commentary.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Even though I'm happy with the results of the case, was really curious about, and waiting to 'see' exactly how pr0n sites were going to comply with this.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
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If a court website gets slashdotted, would it classify as obstruction of justice?
Am I a hipster-doofus?
in truth i saw ADA in the headline and immediately thought of the american dental association . . .
track7.org has all kinds of interesting stuff!
"for a mostly blind guy with photographic memory."
... Oops, off-topic.
If you're mostly blind then obviously having a "photographic memory" takes a lot less storage space.
Don't mod me down if you think I'm making fun of the partially-sighted ("I could have sworn I saw someone there!"). I am actually quite deaf myself. Do I want special treatment ? You bet- I want Japanese schoolgirls to
graspee
The correct term is "slashtastic".
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
It's easy to make the web accessible to the disabled -- have them hire someone that is able to use the web to do it for them.
evil adrian
Alternate Reality News: Popular weblog Slashdot was sued out of existance today for defying the ADA.
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But then again I thought VCR+ was a stupid idea and would die a quick death--so what do I know?
When I worked at a small web design/publisher (the only domains they still have registration for, if not hosted), I had the occasion to look at one of their sites they published and were revising. It had the usual imagemap containing the graphical presentation of the primary navigation links, as well as a group of text links at the bottom of the page for those not using graphical browsers.
Except since they couldn't absolutely control the size of the text and get it to lay out exactly they way they wanted (incompetence + NetObjects (to) Fusion), they decided to turn the text alternative links for the imagemap into yet another imagemap! Not just an imagemap, but an imagemap designed to look like plain text links!
Talk about missing the point!
Funny here is the QOTD from the bottom of the Slashdot page:
"Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist." - Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie