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At 05:30 PM 11/3/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>So why did AOL go to court with The National Federation for the Blind?

Because, unlike the DoJ, the Federation doesn't have infinite financial
resources and Time Warner has billions. Also, the Federation tends to 
settle for fewer accommodations than its rival, the American Council 
of the Blind. So, AOL is probably quite glad to have an opportunity
to participate in a case where it can exhaust its opponent's resources
and then go for a weak settlement.

>And where are all the web sites that have been fixed, or cases that
>have been settled out of court because of this. 

A suit is rarely even filed. For example, a DoJ team came to our 
local City Hall not long ago and demanded all sorts of 
accommodations, some of them unreasonable. No suit was filed
and it didn't even make the papers.

--Brett Glass


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