You gotta fight for your rights

Blind Web Surfers Sue for Accessibility

Blind Web Surfers Sue for Accessibility: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance

I really found this entire article very intriguing. I have
always been on the edge of technological knowledge but never did I know that
the blind could use the Internet. And what makes this experience even more
exciting for me is that I found it out through it being a civil rights case.

I fully believe that no one should be discriminated against
because of mental or physical handicap. And the lack of knowledge, especially
from a multi-billion dollar corporation, is no excuse for denying individuals
their rights. And something else I thought while reading this, target has lost
revenue from blind Internet users who could were not able to access there
website. This may have not been very much but still that is money in the bank.
And this really doesn’t make sense to me and I quote:

Last month a federal judge in
California allowed the NFB’s case to proceed, rejecting Target’s argument that
its Web site wasn’t subject to the Americans With Disabilities Act, a 1990 law
that requires retailers and other public places to make accommodations for
people with disabilities. Target argued that the law only covered physical
spaces. 

Being the tech savvy guy that I am Targets website
falls under the name of an E-tailer or electronic retailer. And this site being
the “physical property” of Target would in theory a retailer store of sorts,
falling under Americans With Disabilities Act, a 1990. I don’t know if it does
it its something that I would like to hear an opinion about.