From rssfeeds@jmason.org Mon Oct 7 12:04:59 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3C216F1C for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:03:35 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:03:35 +0100 (IST) Received: from dogma.slashnull.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9780DK23205 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:00:14 +0100 Message-Id: <200210070800.g9780DK23205@dogma.slashnull.org> To: yyyy@example.com From: diveintomark Subject: Accessibility watershed? Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:00:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; encoding=utf-8 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-911.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,T_NONSENSE_FROM_40_50 version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/06.html#accessibility_watershed Date: 2002-10-06T23:41:43-05:00 _Law.com_: Suit Over Airlines' Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA[1]. [via Slashdot: Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA[2]] Gumson and a Miami Beach, Fla.- based disability rights group, Access Now, filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Miami in June and July against Dallas- based Southwest and Dallas-based American Airlines under the Americans with Disabilities Act. They are doing so under an untested legal theory. Namely, that ADA provisions on the accessibility of public accommodations to the disabled apply to Internet Web sites just as they do to brick-and-mortar facilities like movie theaters and department stores. Five months ago, I said[3] “within the next 12 months, all web authoring tools will fully embrace CSS, accessibility, and web standards. And I mean fully, inside and out, as Macromedia appears to have done here [with Dreamweaver MX]. Those tools that do not will simply fall by the wayside. This is the new baseline.” Seven months to go on that prediction. Tick tock, tick tock... [1] http://www.law.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/View&c=LawArticle&cid=1032128683422&t=LawArticleTech [2] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/2340204 [3] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/02.html#the_new_baseline dive into mark, May 2, 2002: