If you run a business, and you have a website, you may or may not know whether disabled users – the blind, the mobility-impaired, and others – can access your web site with their helper technology. And, from a lawyer’s perspective, even more important, you may not know whether you are violating federal law if you fail to make your web site accessible to those disabled users.

Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update

If you’re in Austin attending the South by Southwest Interactive conference this week, you’re in luck. I, along with my co-panelist Anitra Pavka, will explain how recent cases in the U.S. have changed the way disability law applies to private business websites, the potential pitfalls of violating the law, and some measures you can take immediately to make sure that your website is accessible for all users and fully complies with legal accessibility requirements.

(Room C at the Austin Convention Center, Level 1, 5:00pm, Monday March 10, 2008)

I’ve got three:

• Rage Against the Machine: RIAA Litigation Update

  The recording industry has ramped up its litigation campaign against peer-to-peer file sharing suspects, with cases now numbering in the high thousands. This session explores recent developments in the various cases nationwide and how someone caught in this driftnet litigation might defend themselves.

• Among Thieves: Preventing Online Copyright Infringement

  Digital photographers, web designers, and graphic artists are extremely vulnerable to online theft of their work. This session will explore copyright and trademark law protections for the freelancer and small-shop digital professional.

• Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update

  How recent court decisions expose web site owners to liability for lack of accessibility, and how to protect yourself.

If you’re interested in any of these (or any other SxSW panels), check out the panel picker and vote.

Those of you in the Tampa Bay TV market may want to tune in to Channel 8 for tonight’s Five O’Clock News. I’ll be talking briefly about one of the proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution – specifically, proposal No. 3, “Requiring Broader Public Support for Constitutional Amendments or Revisions.”

Anchor and reporter Josh Thomas conducted the interview.

Ricardo & Wasylik to Move Offices to Historic Train Depot

Law Firm’s Growth Drives Relocation

Dade City, Florida (July 12, 2006) – Ricardo & Wasylik, PL, a
law firm based in Dade City, announced today plans to move its offices to
the Historic Train Depot at Meridian Avenue and the Highway 98 Bypass.

We need to move because of our strong growth, said Jason
Ricardo, who founded the firm in February 2004. Since the firm opened,
we have doubled in size, so we need more space than we currently enjoy.
Moving to within a stone’s throw of the Pasco County Courthouse provides
us with an ideal location.

The firm, presently located on 7th Street above Kiefer Village Jewels,
practices general litigation and focuses in the areas of consumer,
commercial, property, family law and employment litigation. The new
location is expected to open in early September.

We are excited about this new opportunity, said Mike Wasylik, co-
owner of the firm. We think the new location will strengthen our ties to
the Dade City community and make it easier for us to serve our clients on
a much higher level.

About Ricardo & Wasylik, PL

Jason J. Ricardo, a graduate of the Florida State University College of
Law, has practiced law in Florida since 1995. His experience includes
service as a state prosecutor in Pensacola, Florida, and several years as a
litigator with some of Central Florida’s most respected law firms. Ricardo
has practiced in the areas of workers’ compensation, insurance defense,
employment discrimination, criminal defense, family law, and consumer,
property and commercial litigation.

Michael Alex Wasylik also graduated from the Florida State College
of Law in 1995 and has practiced law in Florida, Virginia, and Washington
D.C. His experience includes legislative work for the United States
Congress, both for the House and Senate, and as a litigator with firms in
Florida, Washington D.C., and Virginia. Wasylik has practiced in the areas
of workers’ compensation, professional liability defense, small business
law and contract disputes, employment law, and consumer, property and
commercial litigation.

Ricardo & Wasylik, PL is currently located at 14149 7th Street in
Dade City. For more information, please contact Mike Wasylik at
352.567.3173 or visit www.ricardolaw.com.

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