Glenn Alperin

$6M Suit: Target, Amazon Must Make Web More Accessible to Blind

Let's be honest here. For those who are not blind or deaf, having such disabilities is very socially challenging, at best, and can have very serious consequences if people do not take such matters into account. Imagine dispensing medication to a person who is blind. This is a real world problem with real world consequences which has actually already been solved. Such solutions for a website are even easier (speaking as a web developer myself) and easily should have been a high priority on ANYBODY'S website design list. My personal website is accessible, and there shouldn't be any website out there designed for public viewing which isn't.

Jala, deaf people CAN enjoy radio, especially talk radio and news reports, which is the whole point of having transcripts available. They can even enjoy music, though in a very different way from the rest of us.

Honestly, Target, with it's community focus efforts, really should have known better. Somebody at Target really dropped the ball by approving the Amazon website without due consideration. Somebody, and I don't know who, really screwed up, and at the very least, should lose their own job over it. Target has better things to do with its money than lose lawsuits over stupid easily preventable mistakes. As both a shareholder and a person who cares deeply about disability issues, I would expect better from Target.