Domino's Pizza Petitions Supreme Court Over ADA Compliance
As reported by [arstechnica]:
Domino's Pizza, facing a lawsuit from a blind customer over the inaccessability of their website and app, have petitioned the supreme court to clarify whether online market places are required to follow ADA standards of accessibility, arguing:
"Websites and mobile apps do not become public accommodations simply by virtue of providing access to the goods and services of a brick-and-mortar enterprise," the pizza chain argues. The ADA "does not demand full accessibility for each and every means of accessing the goods or services a public accommodation provides to the public."
As courts have split on the digital accessibility issue several times in the past two decades, Domino's said, the time is "ripe" for Supreme Court intervention.
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed over the past few years over ADA violations of online services, and to be fair the ADA was written in the 1990's, before the digital domain went mainstream. Companies may not be sure what their obligations are, or whether or not they should comply. Then again, considering [WAI-ARIA] web accessibility standards have been a thing for some time, the argument seems a bit specious.
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