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Website Accessibility
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Workforce Bulletin
The U.S. Department of Justice Does Business No Favors By Significantly Delaying Website Accessibility Regulations Until 2018
Frustrating news has emerged from Washington D.C. as the recently-published federal government’s Fall Semiannual Regulatory Agenda revealed that the long-anticipated U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”)…
Workforce Bulletin
The U.S. Department of Justice Does Business No Favors By Significantly Delaying Website Accessibility Regulations Until 2018
Frustrating news has emerged from Washington D.C. as the recently-published federal government’s Fall Semiannual Regulatory Agenda revealed that the long-anticipated U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”)…
Workforce Bulletin
The U.S. Department of Justice Does Business No Favors By Significantly Delaying Website Accessibility Regulations Until 2018
Frustrating news has emerged from Washington D.C. as the recently-published federal government’s Fall Semiannual Regulatory Agenda revealed that the long-anticipated U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”)…
Other
Justice Department Delays Web Accessibility Regulations For At Least Three More Years, Leaving Businesses in Turmoil
By Minh N. Vu and Kristina Launey In an astonishing move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not issue any regulations for public accommodations websites until fiscal…
Other
U.S. General Services Administration Settles Suit Alleging Inaccessibility of Its Website for Contractors
By Kristina M. Launey, Minh N. Vu
Oh, the irony. Our federal government is filing lawsuits against private businesses and universities for having allegedly inaccessible websites and mobile apps when its own agencies have inaccessible websites. In April…
Ad Law Access
Lawsuit Over Website Accessibility Highlights Importance of Compliance
Last month, Reebok was hit with a proposed class action alleging that the company’s website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act because it is not accessible to the blind. The…
Other
Bloomberg BNA Interviews Seyfarth’s ADA Title III Team Leader About Website Accessibility
By Katie Martin
Our ADA Title III Team leader, Minh Vu, recently spoke to Bloomberg BNA about what businesses can do to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities, and the Justice…
Employer Law Report
The focus of the ADA turns to websites in the digital age: Is your site compliant?
Americans with Disabilities Act compliance can take you beyond workplace and employment issues. If you operate a business accessible to the public then the ADA public accommodation rules are important…
Understanding the ADA
Web Accessibility and Universities
In a previous blog entry, which I keep on my greatest hits section of my blog, I discuss what you need to do with respect to auditing your educational institution…
Other
DOJ Shifts Position on Web Access: Stating In Court Filings That Public Accommodations Have a "Pre-Existing" Obligation to Make Websites Accessible
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By Minh N. Vu What a difference five years makes. In September 2010, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced in an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that it would issue…