ADA Title III (web accessibility)

Statute United States (federal) · 1990

Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation, and US courts have overwhelmingly read that to reach websites and mobile apps — without any regulation specifying a technical standard. The result is the most litigated accessibility regime in the world and the least specified: thousands of suits a year, settlements that reference WCAG, and no rule that says so. The 2024 DOJ rule for state and local government fixed this only for the public sector.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

united states

Regions

north america

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

e commerce platformretailbankingtravel technologyhealthcareeducationtechnology

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.

WCAG
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