The Internet Meets The ADA
Since Congress enacted the Americans With Disabilities Act (the "ADA") in 1990, traditional businesses have taken rigorous steps to ensure that disabled persons have full access to offices, commercial establishments, and other public places. Despite the public's increasing reliance on the Internet for information, goods, and services, few businesses apply the requirements of the ADA and similar laws to their Internet sites.
The ADA Applies To Internet Sites.
The ADA provides that "no individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a public accommodation." A common misperception of laws designed to protect disabled persons from discrimination, like the ADA, is that they require businesses to make reasonable accommodations to
