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Recent events offer no clarity on accessibility standards for free public service websites
Author(s) -
Masinter Michael R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30269
Subject(s) - rulemaking , lawsuit , clarity , service (business) , public service , political science , economic justice , government (linguistics) , public relations , business , law , biochemistry , chemistry , marketing , linguistics , philosophy
Web accessibility standards for free public service websites operated by postsecondary schools continue to be uncertain. In my column in the August 2016 issue, I wrote that the potential development of “caption or censor” rules for web servers on which faculty and students post video and audio content as a public service were proceeding in both Department of Justice rulemaking proceedings and in lawsuits brought by the National Association of the Deaf against Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Events since publication have, if anything, created even more uncertainty on both the rulemaking and lawsuit fronts.