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If your business has a website (and whose doesn’t?) you may be a target for a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act and similar state laws. These cases typically allege that the website is not accessible to the visually impaired. If you get hit with one of these claims, a quick and effective response increases the likelihood that the case can be resolved before it metastasizes into expensive litigation. If you are served with one of these lawsuits, or get a demand letter threatening one, here are the three key points to keep in mind.
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Given the many challenges in 2020 of managing a workplace in
the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may not have been
able to focus on non-pandemic priorities. However, it is not too
late to tackle key, non-COVID, action items with some pro-active
planning in early 2021. These key items are set out below.
Employment Agreements - Update Termination Provisions
As discussed in this blog (see here and here), the Ontario courts released a series of
decisions in 2020 relating to contractual termination provisions.
These decisions took particular aim at the termination for cause
Using our documents
The Home Office publishes documents in a range of formats, including: PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, ODT and ODS.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use those documents. For example, when we produce a document we make sure to:
provide a plain text webpage (‘HTML’) option where possible
tag headings and other parts of the document properly, so screen readers can understand the page structure
make sure we include alternative text alongside non-decorative images, so people who can’t see them can understand what they’re there for
avoid using tables, except when we’re presenting data