[blindlaw] Court rules Target must make website accessible totheblind

[Kathleen Hagen]

And these appeals are likely to start with Target, although the 9th circuit 
is still fairly liberal.
Kathy
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From: "Rumpole" <Rumpole at gwi.net>
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Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Court rules Target must make website accessible 
totheblind


> Well done, and well put Mazen. Good quotation from the article:
>    Explaining the ramification of the ruling, Mazen M. Basrawi, Equal
> Justice Works Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates, noted that: "the 
> court
> clarified that the law requires that any place of public accommodation is
> required to ensure that it does not discriminate when it uses the internet
> as a means to enhance the services it offers at a physical location."
>
> I think that the effect of the ruling is exactly why this will be fought
> hard by other retailers across the country - appeals will abound on this
> topic?
>
> Speaking strictly for myself, online shopping sure would make my life 
> easier
> as the Christmas shopping season approaches.
> I'm going to pull this case up and read it through - I'd really like to 
> know
> more about it.
>
> Ross A. Doerr Esquire
>
> Today's definition is drawn from "The Devil's Dictionary" by: Ambrose
> Bierce.
>
> "Cynic: N. A blaggard who insists on seeing things as they really are
> instead of how they ought to be. Hence the custom among the ancient 
> Cythians
> of plucking out the eyes of a Cynic to improve his vision."
>
>
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