In October, Federal District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel certified the NFB lawsuit against Target as class-action, charging Target with violating federal and California statutes. Patel further ruled that the American Disability Act (ADA) and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act required Target.com to maintain website accessibility:
“This is a tremendous step forward for blind people throughout […]
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. […]
Lastest Buzz from the Web Standards project says that the The US National Federation of the Blind has been filed a lawsuit against Target for the inaccessibility of their website. This is big. Although there is legislation which addresses the need to address accessibility on the web, it is not enforced. This […]
I find it more astonishing every day that corporate America seems to overlook the simple fact that access to their web site does matter. Sure your web site might LOOK great in IE or Firefox, but how does it sound in screen reader? Does your web site’s design allow for the text to be increased […]