The latest draft of their assistive technology policy is date June 25 2008. It looks like it was a long time in the making. Lawyers are not it folk.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:05 PM Subject: Re: NFB v. Target You would think that if they had been making progress on accessibility they could have pointed to examples and cried foul for NFB suing somebody who did care. Maybe there were no examples of progress. I haven't checked out their site to see how accessible it is today. Figuring that the suit started in 2006 they should have got it fixed by now. Taking a quick peek I found alt text on a lot of images, header tags and off screen text so somebody has been busy. CB David Poehlman wrote: > Hi CB, > > I wonder just how much of this target was already considering. When the > suit came to light, Target stated that they were committed to > accessibility. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:27 PM > Subject: Re: NFB v. Target > > > One of the downsides of settling is that the agreement usually isn't a > public document, so there is no new case law to clarify what companies > must do. That said, it does add weight, at least in the US, to the idea > that there is a real cost/risk to not making a website accessible. Sort > of the stick side of the carrot and stick persuasion to get companies to > do the right thing. NFB did publish their changes for target.com agreed > to in the settlement here: > > http://www.nfbtargetlawsuit.com/Final%20Exhibit%20D%20Agreed-upon%20changes%20-%201.xls > > Not sure why they had to do it as an Excel spreadsheet but I was able to > open it with Excel, export it as HTML and load that into Safari which > made it readable with Voiceover. I attached the html file but I'm not > sure if this mailing list supports attachments so if it doesn't come > through and you would like to read it just give a shout. > > That said, it's sad that a lot of what's on the list is really basic > stuff like alt text on images and header tags for major sections. For > web developers this should be basics 101 of HTML and also helps with > search engine optimization. Why wouldn't they want to get better page > rankings? > > CB > > Cara Quinn wrote: > >> Where did you see this, out of curiosity? I read what I thought was >> the entire article. >> >> Anyway, regardless, -Any Mac / VO relation?… >> >> Smiles, >> >> Cara :) >> >> >> On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:47 PM, David Poehlman wrote: >> >> >>> how unfortunate. it names jaws and window eyes and only blind. >>> Target is >>> one of my favorite stores to shop at and I have never had a problem >>> using it >>> with jaws. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >>> X by >>> theblind" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:21 PM >>> Subject: NFB v. Target >>> >>> >>> In case you hadn't heard the news Target settled with the NFB today for >>> about $6M. >>> >>> http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jC5L9k0UBbp96HWGbCRNaD18S3TQ >>> >>> >>> CB >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> --- >> View my Online Portfolio at: >> http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn >> >> > > >
