DOJ May Apply ADA Accessibility Guidelines to Websites
From: eWeek - 04/07/2013
By: Brian T. Horowitz

US Department of Justice updates to the Americans With Disabilities Act could
broaden guidelines on Website accessibility for the disabled. 

The Justice Department may update the 1990 American With Disabilities Act
(ADA) to outline how state and local government Websites can make "services,
programs or activities" accessible to people with disabilities, according to
DOJ guidance at Reginfo.gov. A notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) is
scheduled for July 2013. 

In December 2013, the DOJ may also address accessibility of public Websites.
These laws could broaden the degree to which the ADA applies to online
shopping Websites, according to Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe's group product
manager for accessibility and newly named co-chair of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG), an organization that aims for
international standards on accessibility for the disabled. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/doj-may-apply-ada-accessibility-guidelines-to-websites

Links:
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability: Accessibility of Web
  Information and Services of State and Local Governments 
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201210&RIN=1190-AA65

Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web
  Information and Services of Public Accommodations 
http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201210&RIN=1190-AA61

Disabled Sue Over Web Shopping (with video 5:22)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324373204578374483679498140.html

How the Blind Use Today's Technology
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324373204578374483679498140.html#project