November 2013

Consider whether you would want to be involved in the following: a six-day bench trial; 35 witnesses, including city officials, experts, and persons with disabilities; 25,000 pages of documentary exhibits; several hundred pages of briefing and proposed findings of fact; and an additional trial to assess whether the city can justify its lack of accessibility

The issue of whether the Internet has to be accessible to a person with a disability is an issue that we have discussed before. One of the cases out there is the case of Access Now v. Southwest Airlines, 227 F. Supp. 2d 1312 (S.D. Fla. 2002), where the Southern District of Florida