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Lawsuit filed over California recreation reservation website unusable by the blind
Jun 13, 2019
Bob Egelko May 24, 2019 Updated: May 24, 2019 | San Francisco Chronicle
A $66 million contract that was supposed to let people make reservations online for state parks and campgrounds has produced a website that is inaccessible to nearly 1 million blind or vision-impaired Californians, and the contractor should reimburse the state, a leader of the Bay Area’s blind community says in a lawsuit.
Bob Egelko May 24, 2019 Updated: May 24, 2019 | San Francisco Chronicle
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