Topic: Website Owners - Americans Disability Act

[tshattuck]

FYI:
On Fox Business News this morning they ran a story about Website Owners being sued. The story is 100 companies (website owners) are now being sued for not complying with the Americans Disability Act of 1990.
What they are saying is if visually impaired users can't read your website content the website must be able to verbally communicate the contents. For websites with audio content hearing impaired users must be able to visually view the audio content.
From what I heard it will require websites to be compliant with special software on the users computers to be able to provide this additional content.   
The scary part here is the website owners by law are liable for the legal fees!

Has anyone heard about this, or have any additional information?

Concerned;

[tshattuck]

Old Tele man:
Good point; I was thinking the same thing. I believe they were going after commercial sites. The scary part is where do they stop?

Just want to make forum users aware.

Here is a link to the story:  https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/company-websites-that-arent-ada-compliant-becoming-litigation-targets

[tshattuck]

FYI
More info.

Facts About the Americans with Disabilities Act: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-ada.cfm


 

[graculus]

The ADA Lawsuit Contagion Sweeping U.S. States

[miraculon]

Can this apply to our non-business web sites?

I found this tool online that evaluates the site for non-compliance.

http://wave.webaim.org/

Greg H.

[tshattuck]

Greg:
Thanks for the link, nice tool.
I don't know about non-business web sites. Hopefully someone on the forum has info on this.

Regards,