{"id":257,"date":"2019-05-15T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=257"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:25","slug":"websites-held-to-be-public-accommodations-under-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-must-be-made-accessible-through-screen-reading-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/05\/15\/websites-held-to-be-public-accommodations-under-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-must-be-made-accessible-through-screen-reading-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites held to be public accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and must be made accessible through screen reading technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ninth Circuit held that websites are public accommodations within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. \u00a712101, (and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code \u00a751) and must be made accessible to blind persons through screen reading technology.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2019\/01\/15\/17-55504.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Robles v. Domino&#8217;s Pizza, LLC\u00a0<\/a>, 913 F.3d 898 (9th Cir. 2019),\u00a0<em>cert. denied,\u00a0<\/em>140 S.Ct. 122 (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit held that websites are public accommodations within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. \u00a712101, (and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code \u00a751) and must be made accessible to blind persons through screen reading technology.\u00a0Robles v. Domino&#8217;s Pizza, LLC\u00a0, 913 F.3d 898 (9th Cir. 2019),\u00a0cert. denied,\u00a0140 S.Ct. 122 (2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}