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Website Accessibility in the USA
The rise of the WWW and the development of variant HTML dialects by commercial enterprises, combined with the move to graphical applications, caused a breakdown in the accessibility of the Internet.
The City of San Jose court case, brought under the ADA, caused a change in the regulatory climate in the USA and brought website accessibility to the attention of a larger audience.
DOJ rules that ADA accessibility requirements apply to web pages, 9 Sept 1996.
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