Current Irish Legislation - the stick

• Employment Equality Act (1998)
  • employment of persons with disabilities
  • provision of accessible technologies to employee
• Equality Act (2004)
  • reasonable accommodation => undue hardship
• Equal Status Act (2000)
  • categorises discrimination under 9 grounds, one of which is disability
  • reasonable accomodation? - case law
• Disabilities Act (2005)
  • public services providers obligation to ensure information delivered electronically is accessible to people with vision impairments who have access to assistive technologies