New Web Regulations Should Avoid “Do Not Enter” Signs for People with Disabilities
Posted on January 10, 2011
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This is a post about Lainey Feingold speaking before the U.S. Department of Justice about web access. The Department is considering new rules to make web sites more accessible to people with disabilities. Lainey spoke about the need for strong rules to help people who need access. [Back to testimony before Department of Justice.]
On January 10, 2011, Lainey Feingold testified at the San Francisco Public Hearing on the Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking to Revise the ADA Implementing Regulations. The hearing was the last of three held in conjunction with proposed rules on web accessibility and other issues. In her comments, posted here, Lainey urged the Department not to re-invent the wheel, and not to make any rule that would be a “Do Not Enter” sign on the information highway.
In addition to testifying at the hearing, and with co-counsel Linda Dardarian, the Law Office of Lainey Feingold has prepared extensive written comments to all 19 questions asked in the DOJ web accessibility ANPRM. The comments are available to advocates interested in filing their own comments. Please use the Contact Form on this [...]