Cynthia Waddell: Early Leader in Web Accessibility Legal Theory and Advocacy – Law Office of Lainey Feingold

Cynthia Waddell: Early Leader in Web Accessibility Legal Theory and Advocacy

Posted on April 4, 2013

Cynthia Waddell, a pioneer in developing and advocating for legal theories to support website accessibility for people with disabilities, died on April 3, 2013. In 1998, two years before the first Structured Negotiations web accessibility settlement, eight years before the Target web litigation was filed, and long before the U.S. Department of Justice stated its intention to issue web accessibility regulations, Cynthia wrote an article explaining the legal basis for universal design in the development of webpages. Before Twitter and its ubiquitous #a11y and #ux hashtags, Cynthia was an international advocate for an inclusive web, open to all.

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Early Web Accessibility Advocate

In 1998 Cynthia wrote a paper entitled Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard. It may well be one of the first legal papers urging universal design in the development of internet pages. She also founded, and at her death was the Executive Director of, the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI), one of the earliest sites on which to find extensive information about what is [...]

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