Well, yes. But the settlement includes an agreement that the bank will do certain things--and they're doing them. The results, which I look at from time to time, continue to be impressive, imho. They include more and more talking ATMs deployed nationwide. Other banks are following this lead and deploying accessible ATMs. And, the settlement requires on line accessibility, which is increasingly coming to B of A's on line services. I am no lawyer, and I certainly don't have full recall of the ADA, but my recollection off hand is that there's more to go on with the banks than there is with an airline. If nothing else, the banks rather admitted as much by stupidly putting braille labels on ATMs back in the early 1990's thinking, as is so commonly the thought in the general public, that that was all that blind people needed. Whitley CTR Cecil H writes: > From: Whitley CTR Cecil H <WhitleyCH.ctr at cherrypoint.usmc.mil> > > Hi Janina, > > >1.) A major U.S. Federal lawsuit was settled when the defendants, > >Bank of America, agreed to make their services accessible. Since then > >other banks have followed suit--though not as thoroughly, obviously. > >This stands to reason--only B of A is actually under scrutiny. > Unfortunately, this is a "settlement" not a court win. No precident was > set. Again, unfortunately, American Airlines won their first round in > federal court about their web site. Depending on ADA for web accessability > isn't necessarily a winning stratedgy. I haven't heard how the appeals are > going on the american airlines case. > Cecil > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
