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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. Other benefits of well-designed html documents by Rikus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Although I am by no means in favor of requiring web designers to build their documents a certain way, there are plenty of good reasons to do so that will not only benefit the disabled, but also those using text-browsers or special clients that take advantage of the structure of a page to display only the parts of interest to the user.

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

  2. Oh for Christ Sakes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I bet these ADA retards want the Mona Lisa modified to make it handicap accessable.

    These are the same lunatics that tryied to sue an automotive garage in MN because they wouldn't hire a blind mechanic! Good luck trying to cut the brown wire jackass!

    These are the same lunatics that preach such nonsense as requiring an elevator be installed in a two story bookstory in a historical building, then when they are denied the permit because the building is on the registry, they fine the store out of existence.

    This is the same ADA that complains about national forests not being handicap accessable so they have to rip up the forest to put concrete\asphalt roads so the people in wheelchairs can "Get in Touch With Nature"

    I DEMAND that the art community make their painting handicap accessable by having a richly written brail impression made ON the painting so our blind can enjoy the original painting versus some inferior, 3rd party description.

    I DEMAND that they make the NFL handicap accessable and require that a certain % of players on a team handicap to ensure they are not excluded from athletics! Hell why stop there, how come there are no blind Archers in the Olympics!?

    Need samples of the BS try http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg18n2e.html
    http://www.nfb.org/bm/bm99/bm991205.htm
    http://w ww.ksby.com/home/headlines/1007301.html
    http://ww w.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222066/p osts
    http://www.buildings.com/Articles/detail2.as p?Arti cleID=100297
    oh hell just go to yahoo or google and type in ADA abuses there are so damn many of em it's sick.

    If someone went around killing trial lawyers I'd seriously have to think about leaving free ammo outside my door with a Thank You sign..

    ADA - Got to hell, I'm sick of you BS whining you petty SOBs.