[blindlaw] Amazon becoming Accessible

[Kathleen Hagen]

I'm really glad to hear this is happening.  I wondered why we just went after Target when, in fact, Target is powered by Amazon, as are many other sites, so I'm glad to hear this happened.  

Subject: Accessibility of Amazon.com

The NFB with able assistance from Larry Paradis and my intermeddling announced today that it has entered into a joint technology development agreement with
Amazon.com, Inc.  There will be full and equal access to amazon.com by year's end, the platform used by other merchants ("powered by amazon.com.") will
be free of any impediments to accessibility by June 30 of next year and the two entities will work together to address accessibiility issues as new technologies
develop.  It's a good agreement we can be proud of.

This has not received the same press attention as suing Target (ESPN always runs the hard fouls on its reruns, not the good sportsmanship), but I think
this will do some lasting good and if it gets press in the trade press,  it should have some legs in terms of other players on the internet scene.

 Daniel F. Goldstein
Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
120 E. Baltimore St., Suite 1700
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410)962-1030
(410)385-0869 (fax)
443-923-1314 (direct dial)
dfg at browngold.com
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I'm really glad to hear this is happening.  I wondered why we just went after Target when, in fact, Target is powered by Amazon, as are many other sites, so I'm glad to hear this happened. 
 
Subject: Accessibility of Amazon.com
 
The NFB with able assistance from Larry Paradis and my intermeddling announced today that it has entered into a joint technology development agreement with
Amazon.com, Inc.  There will be full and equal access to amazon.com by year’s end, the platform used by other merchants (“powered by amazon.com.”) will
be free of any impediments to accessibility by June 30 of next year and the two entities will work together to address accessibiility issues as new technologies
develop.  It’s a good agreement we can be proud of.
 
This has not received the same press attention as suing Target (ESPN always runs the hard fouls on its reruns, not the good sportsmanship), but I think
this will do some lasting good and if it gets press in the trade press,  it should have some legs in terms of other players on the internet scene.
 
 Daniel F. Goldstein
Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
120 E. Baltimore St., Suite 1700
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410)962-1030
(410)385-0869 (fax)
443-923-1314 (direct dial)
mailto:dfg at browngold.com dfg at browngold.com