August 17, 2021, 5:11 pm
- Newsday has no publicly accessible retail stores
- Standalone websites not covered by ADA
Newsday LLC won a dismissal of a deaf person’s lawsuit contesting the lack of subtitles in website videos because a New York federal court said the news organization’s website was not a “public accommodation place” under federal disability law .
Jay Winegard says he couldn’t understand videos without subtitles.
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