The Ramada and Priceline Settlements

I was quite excited about the $80,000 of fines that were issued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to Ramada and Priceline for the inaccessibility of their websites. It seemed like things were finally moving... As it happens though, they appear to have been let off lightly. Very lightly. In Web accessibility litigation: it?s not what we want Matt May has taken the time to analyse the terms of the settlement and write up his findings.

These companies've been allowed to flag items from the accessibility guidelines that they consider too hard to implement... Points flagged include: 'contrast between background and foreground', 'avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies' and 'logical, device-independent event handlers'. These are bread and butter issues that any developer should be able to sort out. What happened?!

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