[MACCAWS] FW: [thelist] Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web

In case you'd missed this:


> I know this has been of interest of late:
> 
> A federal judge ruled Friday that Southwest Airlines does not 
> have to revamp
> its Web site to make it more accessible to the blind.
> In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Patricia 
> Seitz said the
> Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies only to 
> physical spaces such
> as restaurants and movie theaters and not to the Internet.
> 
> "To expand the ADA to cover 'virtual' spaces would be to 
> create new rights
> without well-defined standards," Seitz wrote in a 12-page 
> opinion dismissing
> the case. "The plain and unambiguous language of the statute 
> and relevant
> regulations does not include Internet Web sites."
> 
> Full story:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962761.html?tag=fd_top_1


Good Thing or Bad thing?
Discuss....... 

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