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Appeals Court Says ADA Doesn't Cover the Web

Posted by michael on from the need-a-seeing-eye-web-browser dept.

tassii writes "In this article from CNet, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court's decision from October 2002, which concluded that Web sites cannot be required to comply with the 1991 disabilities law."

2 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. For the last time... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 2, Funny
    ADAscript is not ADA!!! One is compiled to bytecode and then JustInTime-compiled and executed by a browser plugin, the other is interpreted by the browser itself.

    Oh, wait, I was getting confused with something else. Carry on.

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  2. Re:Other benefits of well-designed html documents by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Funny

    If web designers focused more on the information they want to deliver rather than its appearance, this would be less of an issue.

    Tell that to the porn sites.

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