Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Disabilities Act doesn’t cover Web, court says:

Acting largely on procedural grounds, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court’s decision from October 2002, which concluded that Web sites cannot be required to comply with the 1991 disabilities law. An advocacy group for the blind had sued Southwest Airlines, seeking a redesign of its Web site. Still, the three-judge panel noted that a future case could provide a vehicle for exploring the question in greater depth.

Now, what exactly is this going to mean for us webbies? The W3C says it’s still important to include alt tags, captions, and relative font sizes. Take it another level and provide a text-only vesion of your pages. Take it yet another level and do everything the W3C advises…if I only had the time and the control over our servers, I would. Alas.