url URL date NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERtNUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _law com_ suit over airlines web sites tests bounds of ada NUMBER via slashdot blind user sues southwest over web site cites ada NUMBER gumson and a miami beach fla based disability rights group access now filed lawsuits in u s district court in miami in june and july against dallas based southwest and dallas based american airlines under the americans with disabilities act they are doing so under an untested legal theory namely that ada provisions on the accessibility of public accommodations to the disabled apply to internet web sites just as they do to brick and mortar facilities like movie theaters and department stores five months ago i said NUMBER NUMBER within the next NUMBER months all web authoring tools will fully embrace css accessibility and web standards and i mean fully inside and out as macromedia appears to have done here with dreamweaver mx those tools that do not will simply fall by the wayside this is the new baseline NUMBER seven months to go on that prediction tick tock tick tock NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL dive into mark may NUMBER NUMBER 