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NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Big news! The NFB versus Target lawsuit is settled! As expected, there are good points and bad points to the settlement. You may read an excellent summary of the settlement by Jared Smith of WebAIM in the blog entry Target lawsuit settled. Some of the wins from the lawsuit are:

• Target will pay NFB $90,000 for the certification and first year of monitoring and then $40,000 per year thereafter.
• Target’s web developers will receive at least one day of accessibility training, to be provided by NFB at a cost of up to $15,000 per session.
• Target will respond to accessibility complaints from web site users.
• Target will pay damages of $6,000,000 to the class action claimants, or at most $7000 per claimant, and will pay $20,000 to the California Center for the Blind.
  

If you're really interested, you may read the actual NFB vs. Target Settlement from the Northern District of California. (I find it ironic that the HTML title of this page doesn't pass accessibility guidelines; it says "Untitled Document".)

Addendum:
Here's a press release from NFB from last year (October 7, 2007) with more background on the lawsuit:
Court Ruling Says California Disabled Rights Law Applies to the Web

Addendum:
More on this subject from Accessify, Bruce Lawson, and Access Matters:

• Target lawsuit settled - exactly as it should be
• Two cheers for the Target/NFB accessibility settlement
• Does Target Settlement Really Hit the Target?
  

Labels: expert, law, nfb

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Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The 11th Annual Accessing Higher Ground conference, subtitled Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference, will be November 11- 14, 2008.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is hosting the event at the beautiful Millennium Harvest House hotel in Boulder, Colorado.

I may be speaking at this conference so I hope you can attend!

More about Accessing Higher Ground, in their words:

Accessing Higher Ground focuses on the implementation and benefits of Assistive Technology in the university and college setting for sensory, physical and learning disabilities. Other topics include legal and policy issues, including ADA and 508 compliance, and making campus media and information resources - including Web pages and library resources - accessible.

Labels: "assistive technology", conference

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Podcast #65: Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson.

Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe)

Chatter

• Dennis' Trip to MI
• TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application
• Inaccessible AT&T web site

News

• Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog
• 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read
• ClearLeft - Silverback released

Top Ten Tips?

Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK)

SXSW Panels 2009

• Vote for SXSW panels
  
• March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas
• SXSW Interactive Festival
• SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe
  

Nikita the Spider

• Nikita the Spider
• Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St)
• The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements

Joe Dolson

• Web Accessibility is not SEO
• Spam vs. Accessibility

Labels: event, expert, podcast, validation

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50 Useful Tools for Evaluating Your Website

Thursday, August 07, 2008

Some good web accessibility tools are listed in the post Is Your Site Hot or Not? 50 Useful Tools for Evaluating Your Website. Look under the heading "Accessibility & Usability". Other good tools are listed for SEO, stats, performance, and code validation.

Labels: testing

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