http://www.metafilter.com/tags/webaccessibility Posts tagged with 'webaccessibility' at MetaFilter. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:46 -0800 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74449/NFB%2Dv%2DTarget%2DWeb%2DAccessibility%2Dand%2Dbusiness An important class action lawsuit was settled today when <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D92QMVKO0.htm">Target agreed to pay $6 million in damages</a> to the plaintiffs (<a href="http://www.nfb.org/">National Federation of the Blind</a>, et al.) because these disabled users could not shop on the Target.com site. <a href="http://www.nfbtargetlawsuit.com/">Here</a> is a collection of legal <strike>mumbo jumbo</strike> materials. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines">WCAG</a> set authored by the W3C is barely used online (and 2.0 is controversial); <a href="http://www.section508.gov/">Section 508</a> applies only to government-funded agencies and their websites; this class action lawsuit put to test the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990">Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990</a>, particularly Title III. Some of the comments posted to various newspapers about the story were particularly enlightening: disabled people are lawsuit-happy whiny bastards; small business owners will be put out of business because making accessible sites is omg so expensive and hard; WWW usage is a privilege, not a right; and, naturally, arguments against the previously stated. <small>The ADA doesn't specify <em>how</em> online stores should be made accessible, though, so business will have to rely on WCAG and maybe even tips from Section 508.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74449 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:46 -0800 disabled lawsuit nationalfederationoftheblind target webaccessibility Ky