Judgement favourable to people with disabilities
September 10th, 2006, Tomasz RychlickiThe U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in the case National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63591, PDF file, that a retailer may be sued if it is breaking The Americans with Disabilities Act (Public Law 101-336, U.S. Statutes at Large, 104 Stat. 327 on July 27, 1990). The suit may be filled if a website is inaccessible to the blind people. The crucial case mentioned above concerned Target Corp. website of course. More details and some short comments in the information at www.businesswire.com website. At last some good news from the US jurisdiction in this field. More about web accessibility initiative and all this stuff at www.w3.org website. It is not so expensive to put into practice such solutions. It is also worth noting that those standards are open. All public institutions should follow them without buying any prorietary and imcompatibile technologies. But those are important issues for a pithy and specific scientific essay/article and not for a blog post.