Op-Ed: Amid COVID-19, the Americans With Disabilities Act turns 30. It needs to be updated (via latimesopinion)
. Because of widespread adoption of video-conferencing software, disabled students and employees may be unable to attend school or work if platforms like Skype and Zoom are inaccessible.
A handful of federal courts have considered whether online platforms are places of public accommodation. In the 2015 case, the U.S. District Court of Vermont held that a document-sharing website fit the description and must be accessible. The court reasoned that it shouldn’t matter whether people use brick-and-mortar businesses or their online equivalents; the ADA demands equal access. However, in
, also from 2015, the U.S. District Court of Northern California disagreed, arguing that because Netflix’s platform is unconnected to a physical location, it is not a place of public accommodation and need not comply., the plaintiff, who was blind, sued Domino’s because he couldn’t order food from its website. Last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, sending it back to an appellate court.
Critics might argue that mandating web accessibility is overly burdensome, especially for small businesses. But it’s not necessarily difficult or expensive. An organization called the
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