American Media Services Interactive has joined hands with FlyCast to provide 193 online music channels to listeners on mobile “smart” phones. Continue reading “AMSi, FlyCast to Enhance Accessibility of Cell Phones.”
An accessible web is common sense
WIRED: YOU WOULDN’T necessarily think of cutting-edge web development as being strongly connected with making the world better for people with disabilities, but it turns out that many of the strongest online design advocates take that as their driving design principle writes Danny O’Brien Continue reading “An accessible web is common sense”
E-commerce for the blind
It’s good business — and it’s the law — for companies to make their websites fully accessible to the visually impaired.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires “public accommodations†to be accessible to the disabled as well as the able-bodied. That’s why stores, government buildings and churches have elevators and ramps, not just stairs. But when the National Federation of the Blind urged retail giant Target Corp. three years ago to modify its website to aid the visually impaired, Target balked. The disabilities act applied to its brick-and-mortar stores, not its branch in cyberspace, Target’s lawyers argued. Continue reading “E-commerce for the blind”
BLOGWATCH: Target Settlement
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Target settles lawsuit for $6M!
August 28, 2008 (Computerworld) Target Corp. has agreed to a $6 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in early 2006 by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and others charging that blind people cannot access Target.com. Continue reading “Target settles lawsuit for $6M!”