Off Target
28th Aug 2008
It was announced yesterday that Target lost their web accessibility court case against blind Californian Bruce F. Sexton, Jr.. He sued the giant retailer (with the help of The National Federation of the Blind) because he wasn't able to use their web site. Target have to pay $6,000,000 damages.
More details at The Web Standards Project and Bruce Lawson.
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