AOL Sued For Not Being Accessible: What Does It Really Mean?

According to the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, individuals with disabilities have a combined income of nearly $700 billion. Of that figure, $175 billion is discretionary income. Can AOL and other companies afford to exclude this market by making their Internet services and web sites inaccessible?

Other Resource

National Federation of the Blind et al v. America Online, Inc.
http://www.nfb.org/aolcompl.htm
View the actual complaint in the lawsuit against AOL.

ADA Information Center
http://www.ada-infonet.org/info.htm
Provides various informational documents on the American with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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