Target (the retailer) sued because their website isn't

[Scarpozzi]

Why would blind people be on the internet? How do they look at pr0n? That's ridiculous.

 

[forfor]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
Why would blind people be on the internet? How do they look at pr0n? That's ridiculous.

Further proof ATOT will never get laid.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why don't they just fix it so blind people can buy their crap?
they don't want more customers?

I've developed a site that was funded by a government agency, so we were required to make it section 508 compliant... it wasn't terribly difficult, the main things we had to do was make sure every image had an alt attribute and add an anchor so blind people could skip to the main content of the page.

This an interesting case... they're required by law to make their B&M store accessible to handicapped people, so I can see the reasoning for requiring that their web store be accessible too. But then where do you draw the line? Should all websites have to do it? I think not.

Exactly. It isn't hard to make a site (as counterintuitive as this sounds) blind accessible.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: randay
Damn, wish I was disabled so I could sue the crap outta people.

And I hope you get your wish . . . at least the first part.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why don't they just fix it so blind people can buy their crap?
they don't want more customers?

I've developed a site that was funded by a government agency, so we were required to make it section 508 compliant... it wasn't terribly difficult, the main things we had to do was make sure every image had an alt attribute and add an anchor so blind people could skip to the main content of the page.

This an interesting case... they're required by law to make their B&M store accessible to handicapped people, so I can see the reasoning for requiring that their web store be accessible too. But then where do you draw the line? Should all websites have to do it? I think not.

Exactly. It isn't hard to make a site (as counterintuitive as this sounds) blind accessible.

Which is why I don't see why Target is even bothering to fight this. They don't even have to make the site section 508 compliant, they just have to make it accessible enough to be usable. For a database-driven site, even a relatively complex one, they're looking at one or two man-weeks of labor vs. what they're paying their lawyers.

Sure there's something to be said for standing up for your principles, but there's also something to be said for a retailer offering their customers a good experience.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why don't they just fix it so blind people can buy their crap?
they don't want more customers?

I've developed a site that was funded by a government agency, so we were required to make it section 508 compliant... it wasn't terribly difficult, the main things we had to do was make sure every image had an alt attribute and add an anchor so blind people could skip to the main content of the page.

This an interesting case... they're required by law to make their B&M store accessible to handicapped people, so I can see the reasoning for requiring that their web store be accessible too. But then where do you draw the line? Should all websites have to do it? I think not.

Exactly. It isn't hard to make a site (as counterintuitive as this sounds) blind accessible.

Which is why I don't see why Target is even bothering to fight this. They don't even have to make the site section 508 compliant, they just have to make it accessible enough to be usable. For a database-driven site, even a relatively complex one, they're looking at one or two man-weeks of labor vs. what they're paying their lawyers.

Sure there's something to be said for standing up for your principles, but there's also something to be said for a retailer offering their customers a good experience.

Seriously. Plus, the story shows them in a bad light giving bad pr. They could have saved money by just hiring temp web staff to make it usable and avoiding lawyers fees, and then put out press releases and web banners saying how they're great humanitarians for doing it. It would have been an easy pr win and blind people could have one more place to shop.

 

[Tom]

To those criticizing the decision to hear the case, you want "activist" judeges who ignore the law and just do what they think makes sense ?

because that is what you are asking for.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Tom
To those criticizing the decision to hear the case, you want "activist" judeges who ignore the law and just do what they think makes sense ?

because that is what you are asking for.

Come on now Tom, you're asking people to think rather than make the usual knee-jerk reaction.

 

[EyeMWing]

From a design point of view, it's totally stupid not to provide handicap accessability - it's SO ridiculously easy that it pays for itself after only one impression.

 

[DrPizza]

I wish I worked for Target on their website. Just because of this, I'd make the entire site compliant.

This is a sweater. The main color of this sweater is a marvelous shade of red. It's a slightly pinkish red though, with perhaps a hint of blue or perhaps green. It has a checkered pattern running across the front with hues of blue, red, yellow, and green....

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: randay
Damn, wish I was disabled so I could sue the crap outta people.

if you chop off your head, i think that counts for a disability
try it and let us know how it goes

sweet! now I just gotta find a big company that discriminates against head-impaired people! I'm gonna be rich!

Technically, you'd be blind and deaf. However, you're already retarded, so why take it a step further?

:Q

You mean blind and deaf, like Anne Frank?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Xyclone
:Q

You mean blind and deaf, like Anne Frank?

Hah... I had to think about that one for a second.

 

[winr]

If Target loses who receives the money??