I'd have to run that past my own lawyer on that, but really the "antitrust" thing sounds like a bullshit lame excuse someone high up in an organization would MAKE UP to claim they can't do anything about a problem.

The FTC is supposed to exist to protect consumers. Trade associations should not be operating on caveat emptor practices. I would think the prior art of the DoJ/FTC policy statements in regards to health care, providing that trade organizations can exclude from membership those known for excessive quackery would be sufficient shield. Antitrust laws exist to protect consumers. Using worries about antitrust laws as a reason NOT to protect consumers is pretty flipping sketchy!

Much less such associations should EXIST to aid in litigation against those doing damage to the group. To avoid it on those grounds defeats the entire reason to even exist for the ALLEGED things it's supposed to stand for.

But again that's not what they stand for. It's a money-making scam, nothing more, nothing less. Thus their hands-off "don't rock the boat" attitude towards nearly every aspect of "Accessibility".

Which is why as I said, they're toothless when it comes to actually protecting, enabling, or aiding the disabled. Those are the marketing blurb to get people who don't know better in the door. The past -- what, eight years? nine? -- of said association's existence has been proof enough of that.

Same scam religions run, spewing feel-good nonsense like "god is love" or "love, tolerance, and enlightenment" when all that's peddled from EVERY pulpit is hate, bigotry, and ignorance.

AT BEST it's just a way for a bunch of like minded to sit around verbally circle jerking each-other without doing a damned thing to actually promote accessibility.

-- edit -- why do I keep typing FCC instead of FTC?