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Law.com: Suit Over Airlines’ Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA. [via Slashdot: Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA]

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 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…

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