In October a visually-impaired gamer sued Sony, alleging that it wasn’t fulfilling its responsibilities under U.S. law to provide access to the disabled. The reasoning depending on finding that Sony’s products constitute a public accommodation. A judge said they aren’t.
https://lastchance.cc/visually-impaired-gamer-sues-sony-5399409%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
The court, in granting Sony’s motion to dismiss on Feb. 8, refused to go so far as to say any game Sony currently makes constitutes a public accommodation. A public accommodation doesn’t need to be publicly owned -very loosely speaking it can be a grocery store, hotel or office building whose use is generally available to the public. In a broad sense, we were talking about applying that standard to a virtual environment.
So as you can imagine, allowing the suit to proceed on this finding would have wide ramifications for games publishers. Instead, the court found Sony “is not a place of public accommodation,” and therefore is not in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Disabled Gamer’s Suit Against Sony Tossed [Game Politics]
