The case against Target Corporation alledging the company's website is inaccessible to the blind has received press coverage in a National Law Review's September 28th article.
At this stage, the federal judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, has ruled that the case cannot be dismissed on the basis that the site is not a physical location of public accomodation. In the judge's ruling, she stated, "to limit the ADA to discrimination in the provision of services occurring on the premises of a public accommodation would contradict the plain language of that statute."
The National Federation for the Blind (NFB) estimates that it would cast Target $20,000 - $40,000 to update the online site Target.Com to meet accessibility standards to work with screen-reader software. If instead those design components had been included in the original design, the NFB considers the cost to be "negligible."
Further information on this story can be found at the link:
http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1159347929235
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