The Supreme Court has ruled that blind people can sue businesses for having websites that are inaccessible to the disabled.

This is good for 2 reasons.

The first is that it’s a place of business, and places of business are required to be accessible to the disabled. There should be no get out of jail card for, “Because………Inernet.”

The second is that if they offer alternate websites that are disability friendly, these will be far less likely to be orgies of poorly written JavaScript that take 5 minutes to load.

The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for blind people to sue Domino’s Pizza and other retailers if their websites are not accessible.

In a potentially far-reaching move, the justices turned down an appeal from Domino’s and let stand a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling holding that the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access not just to restaurants and stores but also to the websites and apps of those businesses.

Guillermo Robles, who is blind, filed suit in Los Angeles three years ago and complained he had been unable to order a pizza online because the Domino’s website lacked the software that would allow him to communicate. He cited the ADA, which guarantees to people with a disability “full and equal enjoyment of the goods and services … of any place of public accommodations.”