Monday, March 10th 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm<\/p>\n
Michael Alex Wasylik, Esq. – ricardolaw.com<\/a> Cost of Lawyers vs Web Designers\/Coders Disability Stats Section 508 (Rehabilitation Act of 1974) Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 Is your site a public accommodation? 2002 first case to address Title III’s application to web sites. Target Case: What NFBlind said: Online only may be covered – amazon.com, 37 signals, Dell – not covered by title III Monday, March 10th 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Michael Alex Wasylik, Esq. – ricardolaw.com Anitra Pavka – anitrapavka.com Cost of Lawyers vs Web Designers\/Coders -Target Defense Team: 8 highly-paid lawyers from one of California’s most expensive law firm – Just fixing the site would be much cheaper – worst case scenario: total site redesign and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnitra Pavka – anitrapavka.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\n-Target Defense Team: 8 highly-paid lawyers from one of California’s most expensive law firm
\n– Just fixing the site would be much cheaper – worst case scenario: total site redesign and recode
\n(they may spend millions of dollars just defending this case – how much would it cost to just fix?)<\/p>\n
\n-In the world: 10% of the worlds population has some disability
\nIn the US
\n-10 million visually impaired, 1.5-3 million use the Internet
\nIn California
\n-140,000 visually impaired, 10,000 use the Internet<\/p>\n
\n-Applies primarily to govt. and govt. contractors
\n-Passed in 1998 to expressly include web sites<\/p>\n
\n-Title III of the Act applies to private businesses with “Public Accommodations”
\n-Does not expressly mention web sites<\/p>\n
\nTwelve types listed:<\/p>\n\n
\n“A public accommodation must be a physical, concrete structure”
\nADA does not apply to web sites in 2002 – case dismissed<\/p>\n
\nTarget stores are “places of accommodation” under ADA
\nADA broader than merely limited physical access
\nUnequal access to Target.com denies the blind the full enjoyment of the goods and services offered at Target stores, which are places of public accommodation<\/p>\n
\nNot accessible to screen readers (JAWS)
\nImages lack ALT tags
\n-image maps for navigation
\n-images used as form buttons
\n-merchandise images
\nInadequate use of headers to structure content
\nImproper form labeling
\nMouse required for major functions<\/p>\n
\nBrick and Mortar stores that are also online are covered by title III – Borders, Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"