[technology taskforce] Web Accessibility Victory

[Jahangir Hossain]

Dear All,
Thanks for sharing this information .

Regards, Jahangir




On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 9:44 PM Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is the  Ebook version of the Egovernment  survey
> http://online.fliphtml5.com/gnel/lmvk/
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> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:12 AM Raymond Mamattah <
> mamattah.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That’s a good Judith,
>>
>> I have been a volunteer for the UN e-governance survey and accessibility
>> of websites by the disabled was one of the things looked out for.  Past
>> results of the survey can be found in this url:
>>
>> https://publicadministration.un.org/egovkb/en-us/Reports/UN-E-Government-Survey-2018
>>
>> From this I’m sure disabled accessibility is a requirement, hence this is
>> a good ruling.
>>
>> Regards
>> Raymond Mamattah
>> Accra-Ghana
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 1:51 AM, Judith Hellerstein <
>> judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Just saw this on Facebook. The US Supreme Court refused to opine on a
>>> ruling
>>> letting the past ruling by the lower courts stand. That ruling found
>>> against
>>> Dominoes because its website was not accessible. This law now allows
>>> blind
>>> people to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible,
>>>
>>> https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-07/blind-person-dominos-ada-supreme-court-disabled
>>>
>>>   The law says that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access
>>> not just
>>> to restaurants and stores but also to the websites and apps of those
>>> businesses.
>>> This is a big win for accessibility.
>>>
>>> Judith
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