- From: Marti McCuller <marti@agassa.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 04:37:21 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 05:27 PM 2/9/00 -0800, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > > >> Elizabeth Dorminey, an attorney at Wimberly, Lawson >> Steckel Nelson & Schneider PC in Athens, Ga., said the >> ADA applies to private entities that provide "public >> accommodations" -- a term that doesn't include the >> Internet, Internet service providers or private Web >> sites. > >Yeah, don't be silly, web sites aren't for the public! It's >not like e-commerce sites are CONTINUALLY spoken about as "in >competition with brick-and-mortar" stores! Clearly, brick-and- >mortar stores are for those handicapped people, while the web >is only for us "fully functional" folks. > The odd thing here is that she claims to be less than fully functional --- Macular Degeneration - so bad she can't drive and has to work from home using the Internet and Large Fonts ...... Marti
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