ADA compliance.

• Author: Lewis, Tom E.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

I found the article "Websites and Mobile Applications: Do the Comply with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act?" (September/October) to be very enlightening. The issues and questions regarding Title II and Title III application, and control, over public and private websites raises huge questions not just for lawyers, but for tens, maybe hundreds, of other professions who depend so extensively on their websites, kiosks, and other places real or virtual where a potential client can get information about them: architects, engineers, landscape architects, interior designers, accountants, dentists, funeral directors, and on and on.

I have spent the last three years in a part-time role with the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), developing a program to bring the department in line not only with ADA, or more particular Title II, as a state government entity, but with specifically F.S. [section]282.601-606. Becoming law July 1, 2006, this statute ensures that "(1) state employees with disabilities have access to and are provided with information and data comparable to the access and use by state employees who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency; and (2) [i]ndividuals with disabilities who are members of the public seeking information or services from state agencies that are subject to this part shall be provided with access to and use of information and data comparable to that provided to the public who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency." The standards that are to be employed to determine compliance are "the standards for accessible electronic information and information technology as...