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Re: Seeking a New York based lawyer with ADA expertise

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From: escetic
Date: Feb 26, 2018 9:26AM

I would just add, from your description, a small/medium UK company with website hosted on US servers, or facing US customers, I'm going to guess it's also a smallish/medium website and therefore quite likely the issues are simple and quick fixes which will actually improve the site overall. Many content heavy sites of this size might use, say, 12 html pages and the issue may be in 2 templates generating dynamic content on the fly, so 2 might need simple fixing and you're all set.

It's likely a fix will cost you less than USD $1000.

I would be less worried about lawsuits and more worried about other unintended consequences.

Rob C


> On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:31 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> FYI, there is nothing in our US Sec. 508 regulation that requires information from foreign-based entities to be accessible.
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> The law specifically applies only to US federal government ICT (information communication technology, under which a website and all of its content, including a/v, PDFs, social media, etc.). All ICT "Procured" by the federal government and used by the federal government must be accessible, regardless of where the "product" originates.
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> However, there's room for interpretation by courts and federal agencies that if an entity (organization, academic institution, contractor) receives federal grant money or other federal funding, then the material created through those monies must meet Sec. 508 accessibility requirements.
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> Commercial websites are not yet required to be accessible, although last year's Winn-Dixie settlement has set a court precedent that is supposedly fueling these lawsuits.
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> Bottom line: it's murky. And with this type of lawsuit, only the lawyers get paid.
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> Lainey Feingold would be my first recommendation. But also look at the American Bar Association's website for others who specialize in the area. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/bar_services/publications/bar_leader/2017-18/january-february/accessibility-matters-experts-and-lawyers-with-disabilities-help-bars-find-eliminate-barriers.html
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