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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Aperçu de la réglementation canadienne sur l’accessibilité des contenus Web pour 2025

La réglementation sur l’accessibilité des contenus Web qui s’appliquera aux entreprises du secteur privé exerçant des activités au Canada est toujours en cours d’élaboration. Le gouvernement fédéral a d’ailleurs récemment...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

2025 Outlook on Canadian Web Accessibility Regulations

Web accessibility regulations that apply to private-sector businesses operating in Canada continue to develop. The federal government recently announced a consultation on the web accessibility obligations that federally...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The ADA and Your Website A Guide to Website Accessibility Claims

Most employers know the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability and requires reasonable accommodations of employees’ disabilities. However, this prohibition is...more

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OCR To Offer Webinars On Website Accessibility

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today it is launching a new technical assistance initiative to assist schools, school districts, state education agencies and libraries in making...more

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Is Your Website Accessible to Disabled Users? If Not, Courts Say You Could Be Violating the ADA

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Yes, seriously. This is no longer a remote threat cautioned by overzealous lawyers. This is now a real threat that business owners should address now. If you own and/or operate a business, and the business has a website that...more

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Executive Order Likely Dooms Website Regulations for Public Accommodations

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Seyfarth Synopsis: An executive order from President Trump will likely halt the Justice Department’s public accommodations website rulemaking. President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had stated that proposed...more

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DOJ Continues ADA Web Accessibility Enforcement

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a consent decree to resolve allegations by a blind student regarding the accessibility of a university's website and other technologies. The DOJ requires the university to pay...more

Carlton Fields

Does Your Company Website Violate the ADA? Part 2-Top Ten Considerations for a Web Accessibility Policy

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In Part I of this series, we discussed the uncertainty concerning whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to websites of private businesses, and, if so, the specific requirements that would apply to...more

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What To Know About Website Accessibility Claims

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The new battleground for Plaintiffs filing ADA accessibility cases involves claims of barriers not in physical space but in cyber space. The Plaintiffs’ bar has become more aggressive in filing claims asserting that public...more

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Website Accessibility Regulations Delayed Again! (For At Least Three Years!!)

In a surprise announcement with major repercussions for businesses and their websites, on November 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in its Fall 2015 Statement of Regulatory Priorities that it is delaying—by at...more

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DOJ Shifts Position on Web Access: Stating In Court Filings That Public Accommodations Have a “Pre-Existing” Obligation to Make...

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What a difference five years makes. In September 2010, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced in an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that it would issue new regulations under Title III of the ADA to address the...more

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