Thursday, June 5th, 2014     

The Justice Department announced today that it had reached a settlement under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Under the settlement FSU agrees not to conduct any medical examination or make any disability-related inquiry of job applicants before a conditional offer of employment is made, and to make its employment opportunities website and its mobile applications, conform to, at a minimum, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Level AA Success Criteria and other Conformance Requirements (“WCAG 2.0 AA”). 

To find out more about the ADA or this settlement agreement, call the Justice Department's toll-free ADA Information Line at 800-514-0301 or 800-514-0383 (TDD), or access its ADA.gov website.

 


 

Article Credit: U.S. Department of Justice 

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