ADA COMPLIANCE FOR SMALL BUSINESS WEBSITES

By John C. Clark, Attorney at Law

Is your website a "place of public accommodation"?

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) forbids discrimination on the basis of disabilities and requires that “places of public accommodation and commercial facilities to be designed, constructed, and altered” in compliance with standards for accessibility. Since the ADA was enacted in 1991, when company and commercially based websites were mostly non-existent, the issue of whether websites constitute “places of public accommodation” and subject to ADA compliance has been in need of some definition and guidance.  ​

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