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March 31, 2007
Website Accessibility For People With Disabilities: NYC
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007
Time: 6-8:00 PM
Location: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
Phone Number: (212) 382-6000
Co-sponsored by: the Committee on Legal Issues Affecting People with Disabilities, the Information Technology Law Committee and the Civil Rights Committee.
"The power of the Web is its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is its essential aspect," says Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. The Web is increasingly a prime marketplace of ideas, goods and services, and people with disabilities may not be excluded from it. Some courts and commentators, however, suggest that private sector Websites (Websites of entities designated "public accommodations" in Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act) need to be accessible only if they have a "bricks and mortar" connection.
This program brings to life a recent City Bar report demonstrating that accessibility is required regardless of “bricks and mortar”: "Website Accessibility for People with Disabilities," available at http://www.nycbar.org/pdf/report/Website_Accessibility.pdf.
The program will feature a real-time demonstration of Website accessibility and examples of good and not-so-good accessibility features on selected Websites. Contributors to the report will explain how the law requires accessibility in virtually all public and private sector Websites.
Who should attend?
The program will interest people who use Websites, people responsible for compliance with laws regarding Websites, lawyers and non-lawyers, people with and without disabilities, Website designers and the media.
PARTICIPANTS:
- American Foundation for the Blind
- Carl R. Augusto, President & CEO;
- Walter L. Decker, Executive Vice President;
- Crista Earl, Director, Web Operations; and
- Marc Grossman, Accessibility Consultant
- Carl R. Augusto, President & CEO;
- Contributors to "Website Accessibility for People with Disabilities"
- Kenneth M. Dreifach, Information Technology Law Committee;
- Peter Johnson, Committee on Legal Issues Affecting People with Disabilities; and
- Mark H. Leeds, Civil Rights Committee
- Kenneth M. Dreifach, Information Technology Law Committee;
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Association will seek to provide sign language and oral interpreters for people who wish to attend this program when a request is made to the Executive Director's Office (212-382-6660 or rnelson@nycbar.org) sufficiently in advance; persons making the request must confirm their attendance with this Office two business days before the program.
Posted by Nancy at March 31, 2007 01:39 PM