I was watching CNBC the other day, reading business and industry blogs and newspaper articles and was fatigued by the recurrent theme of interest rate hikes by the Fed, or not, and the affect on real estate. Mostly, the media enforces the idea that interest rates for home loans is the reason home sales are not as voluminous as the prognosticators had hoped nationwide. I’m sure 4.5% loan rates leave some borrowers out of the market that would have qualified at 2.5%, but my perspective is tarnished by my own life experiences and observations, so I tend to discount these experts.
When I was a young homebuyer interest rates for people with good credit were 18%-23% with 4-6 points, so in order for me to get excited by interest rates you would have to put a 2 in front of current rates.
Help your clients gain perspective and attend to the factors they can control.
The World Wide Web Consortium, known as W3C, created and is hosting ongoing development of WAI, the Web Accessibility Initiative. Why do you care? Because of ADA and your website or app.
If you attended our Fair Housing Event with Finnemore Craig attorneys Alexis Glascock and Bruna Pedrini you will remember hour 2 was dedicated to ADA and we touched on the issue of website compliance with ADA. The point made was, yes websites need to comply with ADA, there are no clear rules, even the Department of Justice website does not comply since some standards cannot be implemented due to technology lags, ADA lawsuits are increasing.
In this podcast we discuss how current court cases like Robles v Domino’s Pizza impact your website and mobile app. We discuss compliance with WCAG 2.0 and 2.1, how the courts, Department of Justice (DOJ) and other government agencies use these standard when deciding if a website or app is ADA compliant and the new rash of ADA lawsuits against small business regarding their website and mobile app accessibility.
Read the blog post on Website and Mobile App Accessibility.
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