In the ballot issues up for decisions today, it looks like an overwhelming win for discrimination and minimum wage increases.
In an unrelated matter, I caught this article over at the NYT site while waiting for results:
Do the Rights of the Disabled Extend to the Blind on the Web?
ACCORDING to an advocacy group, Target declined last year to make its Web site fully accessible to blind people with specialized screen-reading technology last year. If true — and Target has denied the accusation in court — it was a public relations blunder, and it may have been illegal as well.
On Sept. 6, a federal judge in California held, in a preliminary ruling on the suit, that in some instances, Web sites must cater to disabled people.
Since 508C compliance isn’t all that difficult or expensive, you have to wonder why Target doesn’t do the right thing and implement a JAWS compatible site as Amazon does.
