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ADA Accessibility Requirements Apply To Internet Web Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Norm Coombs)
Mon Dec 15 20:47:53 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:22:34 -0600
From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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ADA Accessibility Requirements Apply To Internet Web Pages.
Posted in the Law Reporter, Vol. 10, Issue 6, 9/11/97, 1053-1084/97
10 NLDR ? 240
The Honorable Tom Harkin
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-1502
Digest of Inquiry
To what extent does the ADA require that Internet web pages be
accessible to people with visual disabilities?
Digest of Response
ADA Accessibility Requirements Apply To Internet Web Pages.
Entities subject to title II or III of the ADA must provide effective
communication to individuals with disabilities, and covered entities
that use the Internet to provide information regarding their programs,
goods or services must be prepared to offer those communications
through accessible means. Such entities may provide web page
information in text format that is accessible to screen reading
devices that are used by people with visual impairments, and they may
also offer alternative accessible formats that are identified in a
screen-readable format on a web page.
Deval L. Patrick
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
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