CNET: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web, court says

A federal appeals court confirmed that websites need not provide ways for the blind to access information, as some handicapped advocates have maintained. The ruling took Southwest Airlines off the hook, as the plaintiffs were suing to force the carrier to redesign its site. The court ruled that a technicality prevented the Americans with Disabilities Act from applying in the particular case. But the three-judge panel did note that there may be "significant" grounds in a future case to probe the merits of the Act's application to the internet.