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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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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.
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!
Why would dentists care about the web pages being accessible anyway?
http://www.zombo.com (turn sound up)
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.
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?"
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