oops!
Target are not offering a website to help clients. You can bet your
last penny they have a website to make it easier to reach more
customers and convince them to spend their money with Traget.
Period!
There is nothing in Target's behaviour that says they want to make
life easier for their customers. If ther DID they would make it
accessible!
sheesh!
They were asked to fix a tiny thing that would be so easy to fix it
is laughable. They said "we don't want to make the site easier to use
or accessible by a vociferous and disadvantaged group of keen
shoppers, willing to politely show how it can be done".
Imagine if target said "let's improve the site, make a big deal about
it and show how we lead the pack in an inclusive society"
... yeah I though it was funny too!
Target could have been the "shop somewhere else" leader, if it wanted
to...
Your analogy, again, fails. we are not saying make the site
accessible to the blind but painful for the sighted. The opposite in
fact.
Making the site accessible ADDS to the experience, it does not remove
pleasure from one group to give it to the other - EVERYONE benefits.
A better analogy would be to supply everyone in the gym with a socket
in all the machines so they can bring their own headphones and set
their own volumes, like mine does. WIN-WIN.
On Oct 04, 2007, at 01:40, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
What Target offer is an additional service to their clients. They
don’t have to offer a website, they just do it to make it easier
for their customers (and of course to sell more products).
If they are being sued for having an inaccessible website, they
might as well turn around and take the site down. That doesn’t help
anybody.
It’s like suing your local gym for not turning on the volume of the
TVs they’ve got hanging of their walls. They could do it, it’s easy
to do, it would make a small group of people happy, but they chose
not to.
That’s the right of every private company: they can choose what
services they offer and they can choose in what format those
services come. If you do not like it, then you go and shop
somewhere else.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Green
Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 8:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard
I think you'll find the people of Tibet didn't build Mount Everest
and weren't even able to influence its design.
Target chose to design their site the way they did, and a
professional designer would have known that they were excluding
some people from using the website. In the face of such wilful or
ignorant behaviour I believe it is necessary to legislate. Sure
it's inconvenient to have to worry about people with disabilities
and incur additional costs to support them, but it's a mark of a
civilised country that we do. At least where I live.
Steve
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
Sent: 03 October 2007 22:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard
"Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like'
outweighs other people's right to be treated equally?"
Be treated equally? They have to CHOOSE to visit the site. So,
because they want (want need)to do something, others should
accommodate?
I want to visit the summit of mount everest... I suppose the people
of tibet should install an escalator just so I can reach the top
due to my less-then-perfect phisical status. Damn them for not
allowing me to the summit, I'm going to sue.
Idiocy.
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