[blindlaw] Amazon becoming Accessible

[Mazen]

inaccessibility  does not mean complete exclusion from the website and its
activities, rather it means equal access to the same goods and services
provided to the sighted public. That would include easy navigation and use
of the website comparable to a sighted user.

Mazen M. Basrawi 

-----Original Message-----
From: E.J. Zufelt [mailto:everett at zufelt.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:17 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Amazon becoming Accessible

Very interesting,

Excuse my ignorance, but what is wrong with AMazon.com from an accessibility
standpoint.  Certainly the pages aren't the easiest to navigate (some
headings would be nice), but I've never had a problem finding a product or
completing a transaction.

Everett



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen Hagen" <khagen12 at earthlink.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] Amazon becoming Accessible


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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