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Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability under Disability Laws 2008
Released on: Jan. 12, 2009Overview
Taken from the Briefing Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability under Disability Laws Recorded November 2008.
The proliferation of online commerce, public programs and services, and distance learning opportunities via the Internet is drawing regular attention to the issues of website accessibility and federal disability law. High profile settlements have been reached with Apple, Target, and Amazon recently among others. Implicating the delivery of e-Government services, Federal agencies and contractors are subject to the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Similarly, state and local governments are subject to the effective communication and equal access and benefit provisions of ADA Title II, and/or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act for receipt of federal funds. Many state disability laws, such as those in California, New Jersey and Massachusetts that have provision for damages also may apply to the internet. Public and private higher education institutions, as well as state and local K-12 programs, have turned to online delivery of education as a means of reaching non-traditional students at an incredible rate. These latter issues require consideration under Titles II & III, Section 504, and the IDEA.
The presenters will review what you need to know in regard to Federal agencies, and ADA Title II and III entities providing goods, programs and services alternatively or exclusively online.
Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability under Disability Laws [01:04:30]
William N. Myhill, Daniel F. Goldstein, Peter Blanck, Ph.D., J.D., Clara Van Gerven
- Title III providers of goods and services
- Federally funded e-Government programs and services
- State & local e-Government programs and services
- Public and private providers of Distance Learning
The purchase price of this MP3 includes the following articles available online:
- Unruh Civil Rights Act
- NFB v. Target 2007
- NFB v. Target 2006
- ADA Title III
- Nonvisual Web Accessibility
Clara Van Gerven - 21St Century Online Distance Education & Federal Disability Law
William N. Myhill
Faculty
Speaker(s)
Daniel F. Goldstein, Partner, Brown Goldstein & Levy, LLPWilliam N. Myhill, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law
Clara Van Gerven, Access Technology Content Specialist, National Federation of the Blind
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Amy Taub, Practising Law InstituteCLE Credit
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