DOJ Effort to Require Public Website Accessibility Not a Slam Dunk: Disability Lawyer
Though DOJ announced it plans to pursue creating regulations that would require state and local government websites be accessible to people with disabilities, it's "hard to be confident that new regulations will happen," disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold blogged Monday.…
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Noting a similar effort DOJ undertook in 2010 that never came to fruition, Feingold said her experience with delayed regulations "make[s] optimism a challenge." Justice announced last month it intends to publish an NPRM "to amend its Title II ADA regulation to provide technical standards to assist public entities in complying with their existing obligations to make their websites accessible to individuals with disabilities." It said it expects to issue an NPRM in April.