Comments on: The webdev community’s response to the Target Lawsuit

By: Accessibility is about Equality | Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design

Accessibility is about Equality | Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:34:16 +0000

[...] I ran across a post by Bruce Lawson which is devoted to this very problem. If you read the post, it’s really necessary to read through the comments. The post [...]

By: Matthew Stoloff's Blog · Web Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired Under the ADA

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:41:03 +0000

[...] some businesses may not have made any changes at all. While some bloggers were quite annoyed with the Target case, many website designers agree that it is simply good practice to ensure [...]

By: JD Kraaikamp

JD Kraaikamp — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:53:52 +0000

One thing I’ve discovered about accessible websites: they’re actually easier to code. Of course, I do everything by text editor, but seriously, it’s honestly a cinch.

Okay, a blind person is not gonna see the nice background I came used, nor the layout of the page, but that person will be able to easily READ it.

And that is the point.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:23:52 +0000

Cheers John!

By: John D

John D — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:36:55 +0000

Heads up, Bruce; the NFB won this lawsuit, it was announced a few days ago, and you’re #1 on Google for “Target 508 lawsuit.”

But at least the standard wingnut talking points have been addressed here. My own workplace is in heated argument along much these same lines…

By: Wild Ted

Wild Ted — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:33:34 +0000

I just read Mr Beasley’s post and apart from his views on disabled people, he also has some strange ideas on economics. He states:

“What do you think capitalism is? The overall founding principle of the US economy was a free market without government interference. So who exactly are you calling ignorant?”

I am, perhaps a little unusually, a web designer with a degree in economic history (London School of Economics, 1999). Mr Beasley seems to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the Reagan era propaganda on (so called) free markets. In a nutshell, in capitalist countries, economic freedoms absolutely depend on government “interference” in a multitude of ways from the provision of a legal system to guaranteeing the value of the currency. There is no such thing as a free market, not in the US or anywhere else – only relatively free ones.