July 07, 2017
One Activist Has Hundreds of Colleges Under the Gun to Fix Their Websites
After the 2016 presidential election, Marcie Lipsitt looked up the alma maters of Donald J. Trump’s chief advisers and persuaded the Education Department to investigate them for illegally having websites inaccessible to people with disabilities. Ms. Lipsitt, a veteran disability-rights activist from Franklin, Mich., says she regards virtually any college as an easy target, because nearly all have web pages inaccessible to people who are blind or deaf, or who have motor or cognitive disabilities.