{"id":1127,"date":"2019-10-23T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/glj-online\/108-online\/websites-apps-accessibility-and-extraterritoriality-under-title-iii-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:14:08","slug":"websites-apps-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/108-online\/websites-apps-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites, Apps, Accessibility, and Extraterritoriality Under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal courts are currently split as to whether websites qualify as &#8220;places of public accommodation&#8221; under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u00a0Neither side of the split, however, offers a satisfactory interpretation of Title III, especially because both sides fail to consider the potential extraterritorial implications of applying Title III to websites.\u00a0This Note proposes to head off the inevitable extraterritoriality issue, and resolves the Title III split by establishing a bright-line rule: data centers\u2014not websites or apps\u2014are places of public accommodation under Title III of the ADA.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/10\/Ruddy-Websites-Apps-Accessibility-and-Extraterritoriality-Under-Title-III-of-the-Americans-with-Disabilities-Act.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cx_external_link\"><span class=\"cx_external_hyperlink\">Websites, Apps, Accessibility, and Extraterritoriality Under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act<\/span><span class=\"visually_hide\">(This link opens in a new tab)<\/span><span class=\"cx_external_icon\"><\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal courts are currently split as to whether websites qualify as &#8220;places of public accommodation&#8221; under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.\u00a0Neither side of the split, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"parent":830,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions\/1136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}