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Summer Blockbuster: Justice Department Issues Proposed Rule That Would...
By John W. Egan On Friday of last week—the day before the ADA’s twenty-fourth anniversary—the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a proposed rule that would require movie theaters with digital...
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Comment Period for Movie Captioning NPRM Opens Today
By John W. Egan On July 25, 2014, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued proposed regulations that would require movie theaters with digital screens to show movies with closed captioning and audio...
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Comment Period for Movie Captioning NPRM Extended to December 1, 2014
By John W. Egan As we have previously reported, the Department of Justice issued proposed regulations this summer that would require movie theaters to show movies with closed captioning and audio...
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Tenth Circuit Rejects DOJ and Advocacy Group’s Attempt to Inject Unstated...
By Kevin Fritz and Kylie Byron If you’ve visited a shopping mall in America, you’ve probably seen the characteristic design of the Hollister Co. clothing stores. About 249 of the stores have a roofed...
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Justice Department Enters Into Another Website Accessibility Agreement
By Minh N. Vu and Paul H. Kehoe The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday announced a settlement [here and here] with Peapod, the country’s leading internet grocery retailer and delivery service,...
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Justice Department Further Delays Website Regulations
By Minh Vu and Kristina Launey The Justice Department (DOJ) just officially announced in the federal government’s Unified Regulatory Agenda that it is again pushing back the target date for publishing...
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New Justice Department Guidance Provides Useful Roadmap for Public and...
By Eden Anderson Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued a joint guidance Under Title II of ADA (the “Guidance”) explaining the obligation of...
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DOJ Push for Website Accessibility Reaches the Mainstream Media
By Minh Vu and Kristina Launey Although we attorneys who specialize in ADA Title III matters have been dealing with and writing about website accessibility issues for years, most people, including...
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Justice Department Settlement Requires the Museum of Crime & Punishment to...
By Minh Vu and Kylie Byron The Department of Justice (DOJ) is continuing to pressure businesses to make their websites accessible even while it is drafting proposed regulations for websites that are...
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Proposed Accessibility Standards for Federal Government Websites Highlights...
By Minh N. Vu and Kristina M. Launey On February 18, 2015, the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (“Access Board”) issued a proposed rule (“NPRM”) which would, among other...
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NPR Report that DOJ Will Release Website Regulations This Month Requires...
By Minh N. Vu and Kristina M. Launey Seyfarth’s ADA Title III Team — along with many businesses and disability advocates — has closely monitored the status of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) proposed...
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Nation’s Only Non-Profit MOOC Platform Provider Leads the Industry With...
By Minh N. Vu and Paul Kehoe The Department of Justice (DOJ) and edX today announced an agreement under which edX has voluntarily agreed to make its website, mobile applications, and open source...
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New York Law Creates Quandary for Businesses with New “Accessible Icon”
By John W. Egan Despite the url (www.adatitleiii.com) and frequent federal focus of this blog, it is important to remember that many states and municipalities have their own disability access laws and...
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Another DOJ Action over Allegedly Inaccessible Websites and Other Technologies
By Minh N. Vu For today’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have yet another Department Justice enforcement action to report relating to the allegedly inaccessible websites and other technologies....
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Website Regulations Update: Public Accommodations Proposed Regs Further...
By Minh N. Vu According to the Spring 2015 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will issue no proposed regulations for public accommodations...
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DOJ Shifts Position on Web Access: Stating In Court Filings That Public...
By Minh N. Vu What a difference five years makes. In September 2010, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced in an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that it would issue new regulations...
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Lack Of Website Accessibility Regulations Is No Bar To Suit, Another Judge...
There is more bad news for businesses that thought that they could wait for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue specific regulations before making their websites accessible to individuals with...
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Regulatory Update: Movie Captioning and Audio Description Regulations in the...
As we reported in July of 2014, the DOJ is working on final regulations that would require movie theatres with digital screens to show movies with closed captioning and audio description. At a cost to...
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DOJ Consent Decree Is A Reminder That Service Providers Are Public...
By Kevin Fritz When people think of the term “public accommodation,” images of restaurants, storefronts, and hotels come to mind. The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent Consent Decree with a moving...
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New York City Enacts Accessibility Standards for Government Websites
Seyfarth Synopsis: NYC recently passed a law requiring that its government agency websites meet accessibility standards. Other state and local governments may follow NYC’s lead and enact...
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