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At 11:27 PM 11/1/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>The ADA actually applies to "physical places of public
>accomodation". In Hooks vs. OKBridge, the US District Court for the
>Western District of Texas ruled that the ADA doesn't apply to a web
>site because a web site isn't a "physical place". On appeal, the Fifth
>Circuit ducked the issue by ruling that OKBridge hadn't violated the
>ADA for reason unrelated to whether or not the ADA applied to the web
>site. Details at <URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/aprsep00.htm >.

Sorry, Mike, but that case is unrelated. The person in question had
bipolar disorder, not an inability to read the screen. The DOJ 
has ruled that the ADA does require Web pages to be accessible via
text-based browsers. Local governments have also imposed similar
requirements. see

http://www.rit.edu/~easi/law/weblaw1.htm

--Brett Glass


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