Well, I haven't been to Target's page, but from what I heard  it isn't
real accesible.  Some that are are Wal-Mart of course and rugstore.com and
I'm sure there are others just to name a few.





On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Don Moore wrote:

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> In today's climate, many so-called advocacy organizations consider financial transactions as an appropriate path to redemption for whatever wrongs they accuse a company with deep pockets of.
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> There have been reports of some civil rights organizations, after all, have changed from opposing to supporting issues of companies after donations have been made.
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> There are obviously groups with worse websites, and, from what I understand the democrat convention website isn't real accessible either, especially if you want to listen to the stream.
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> Maybe this is practice for a fund raiser that could actually help us ultimately with better accessibility.  One can but hope.
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> Anyone want to weigh in on:
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> --Paying the NFB rather than some other neutral entity to do the monitoring?
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> --The specific technical standards proposed compared to other available standards?
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> --specifying JAWS rather than screen readers in general?
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> In general I think some kind of ongoing monitoring is reasonable since people need to modify their websites over time. I am hoping someone has a reason to read the tech docs sooner than I will.
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> I also think the settlement is interesting in that it ducks the question around the edges of this suit abotu ADA applicability on the web. I am GLAD the suit is settled rather than creating bad precedent, but if the point is to make an example, can we expect more companies lining up to pay the NFB rather than a neutral body to bless their websites too?
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> What do others think?
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> DoreneC
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