Last week was the Mozilla Accessibility Summit in Cambridge, MA. Shane Anderson gives a general overview, with links to Mark Pilgrim’s more detailed account of the presentations. If you’re getting the sense that Firefox is positioning itself as a sort of vanguard to advance and cultivate the cause of web accessibility, you would be correct.
As an update of Tim’s earlier post (regarding Target being sued by the National Federation of the Blind for failing to provide accessible website content), last month a California federal judge decided not to dismiss a discrimination case against retailer Target Corp. This opens the door to all Internet-related Americans with Disabilities claims, proving that websites fall under the category of “physical places of accommodation.” Target had filed a motion to dismiss the case on the premise that ADA laws don’t apply to Web sites, going so far as to suggest that such laws violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
