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 […]
Any good, upstanding web nerd knows Tim Berners-Lee. Recently he was interviewed by the British Computer Society. Berners-Lee makes some very good points about the state of the web and the direction its heading. Most of all he captures the essence of what has been discussed at several of the PSO meetings […]
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 […]
Will makes an interesting point in his blog post about using browser-specific CSS and still having webpages validate. His quandry:
Have you ever been tempted to use a CSS property such as -moz-border-radius, but can’t stand the thought of having a page that refuses to validate?
He can’t add it to an external stylesheet through <link>, nor […]
Taken from StraightUpSearch, yet another reason to get on the Standards Bus:
“Why should my corporation care what the page markup looks like? Because search engines do. They care so much that they have dedicated teams of programmers who do nothing but define meaning between elements on a page, developing algorithms to assign rank and value […]
The most common discussion when it comes to standards is about how you convince your boss or company that standards are the right way to go. There are a million good articles around the Internet about why standards are hot. There are just as many standards junkies working for organizations that can’t see the benefits. […]