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mdlbearLegal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
I've been saying this for years: making your site accessible to the blind also makes it accessible to the nearsighted (like me), people using mobile phones and other handheld devices, and above all to search engines. Want to know what your site looks like to Google? Just look at it in Lynx.
(from Slashdot)
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal district court judge ruled yesterday that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind. The ruling was issued in a case brought by the National Federation of the Blind against Target Corp. (Northern District of California Case No. C 06-01802 MHP) The suit charges that Target's website ( http://www.target.com ) is inaccessible to the blind, and therefore violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, and the California Disabled Persons Act. Target asked the court to dismiss the action by arguing that no law requires Target to make its website accessible. The Court denied Target's motion to dismiss and held that the federal and state civil rights laws do apply to a website such as target.com....and about bloody time!
I've been saying this for years: making your site accessible to the blind also makes it accessible to the nearsighted (like me), people using mobile phones and other handheld devices, and above all to search engines. Want to know what your site looks like to Google? Just look at it in Lynx.
(from Slashdot)
