A review of the Target website with screenshots, it still has 556 HTML
errors one year later and blank space everywhere.
Wal-Mart and many other American sites need a kick in the behind as
well.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/USAweb.html#targetstore
Tim
On 09/09/2006, at 9:09 AM, Ted Drake wrote:
Hi Micky
You need to show good faith effort to make your site accessible.
Target was
warned 6 months prior to the initial filing that they had significant
problems and suggestions were given to fix them. The Target site did
not
make it difficult to use, it made it impossible for a blind person to
purchase and get online-only discounts. Those are the two issues, are
you
making a good faith effort and are you providing services to everyone
regardless of ability.
If your newspaper can show that they've made an honest effort to fix
accessibility issues, they should be safe. Those basic steps would
include
adding alternate text to images and making sure your only navigational
elements are not hidden behind javascript, flash, and/or image based
without
alt attributes.
If your paper is still suffering from these elements, it's your duty
as a
professional web developer to make the adjustments. It will also
provide
your paper with better search engine results.
Ted
http://www.last-child.com
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On Behalf Of Micky Hulse
...
I work for a/the local newspaper company and it would be hell to try
and
make everything accessible... so many different departments doing
different things to the site - not to mention the old-school
programmers
that could care less about accessibility. Also, all of the third-party
scripts we have going would make any type "standards upgrade" nearly
impossible.
I would hate to own an e-commerce company that was in the same boat as
above... If that ruling passes, I would like to see some sort of
grandfather clause, or at least some sort of grace period.
...
Am I missing the point here?
Cheers,
Micky
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