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Blind people sue Target because they can't access Target's website.
HaRuMaN:
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This gets a big WTF? ??? How is Target supposed to do that? And why are they targeting (lol) Target? Are there websites out there that blind people can access somehow?
shardian:
Blind people must really hate Target? :dunno
SavannahLion:
This was part of one of my courses at school.
Websites aren't accessible to the blind per se, it's not like you literally have to have a braille version of the website. What it is is that websites need to be blind software friendly.
I haven't had the need to design a website that's blind friendly in a long time. The gist of it is is that certain web techniques are actually very blind unfriendly. For instance, a common tactic to organizing information and layout is to use complex table layout rules. While tables visually look nice, blind screen readers had a hell of a time interpreting information within any but the most simple table layouts. It is (was?) a rule that web developers couldn't use rowspan and colspan because readers would tend to botch them. Another is the use of frames, image only text, Java, ActiveX, Flash, Gotchas, the list goes on and on. CSS wreaked havoc on blind readers for a long time.
My information is a bit out of date, so I might be wrong on a couple of points. I'm sure by now all but the most complex CSS is handled accurately by readers.
tommy:
I guess this is like suing a shoe company because their shoes are not "no leg people" friendly.
Ed_McCarron:
Sure, it sucks to be blind, but WTF?
Driving isn't blind person friendly... You don't see Ford getting sued.
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