This Sounds Like A Good Little Earner,

for ambulance chasing lawyers,

who want to explore a huge untapped market, above is the outside of the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City (image via Wikimedia Commons), and what has it done wrong? well it and 75 other art galleries in New York have been served with lawsuits claiming that they have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to make their websites accessible to blind or visually impaired people, this news reflects a growing trend: lawsuits targeting business websites over ADA violations are on the rise, according to the LA Times, such lawsuits, which have targeted institutions ranging from the Hooters restaurant chain to Harvard University, but here is the thing, there are no formal government standards for businesses to follow to ensure their websites comply with the ADA! the costs of making a site accessible depends on the site’s complexity and can range from several thousand dollars to a few million, because of their frequent use of features like slideshows, art gallery websites are usually on the more complex side, while increasing web access for the visually impaired is, of course, an important cause, some have raised concerns that lawyers are clogging the courts with ADA lawsuits to turn a profit, and not for the sake of fighting for the rights of people with disabilities, wait a second let's read that again, 'lawyers are clogging the courts with ADA lawsuits to turn a profit' who would have thought that! OK this is happening in America, but what happens there usually makes it's way over to the UK, I remember in the UK when there were no ambulance chasing lawyers, but it soon caught on! for the full story have a look here.