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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."

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  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.