Lawsuit over airlines' websites
"When Robert Gumson logs on to the Internet, he uses a software program that converts Web site content into speech. But when he logged on to Southwest Airlines' Web site to make a reservation, Gumson, who is blind, found that the site was incompatible with his screen-reader program." In the UK, we have the Disability Discrimination Act. In the US, there's the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The question is, do the ADA provisions on the accessibility of public facilities to the disabled apply to Internet websites in the same way as they do to brick-and-mortar facilities like cinemas and department stores? Gumson and a Florida-based disability right group aim to find out, by filing suits against American Airlines. Read the full story in this Law.com report.