[sacate] Re: lawsuit over screen readers
- From: "wes britton" <spywise@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sacate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:18:31 -0400
No--that was forwarded to me from a friend. I don't know where he got it.
Wes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Marshall" <michael.marshall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sacate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:32 PM
Subject: [sacate] Re: lawsuit over screen readers
> Thanks, Wes. Do you have the source for that article? I would like to
> share it with some of my coworkers.
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> On 10/4/07, wes britton <spywise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Lawsuit seeks to improve Web access for the blind
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>> A ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco could mean that businesses
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>> and government agencies would have to make their Web sites accessible to
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>> the blind, something disability rights advocates say is vital as the
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>> routine transactions of everyday life take place increasingly on the
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>> Internet.
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>> U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel granted class-action status
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>> to a lawsuit alleging that Target Corp. is in violation of California and
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>> federal laws because its Web site doesn't work with screen-reading
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>> software, essentially making the site unusable for blind people.
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>> To comply, Target would have to tag product images on its site with word
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>> descriptions, allowing the software to "read" those images aloud.
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>> Many retailers, including Wal-Mart Inc. and Amazon.com, have upgraded
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>> their Web sites or are in the process of doing so, said John Pare,
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>> executive director for strategic initiatives for the National Federation
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>> of the Blind. Most companies have done so voluntarily, he said, in
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>> response to concerns raised by the 50,000-member foundation.
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