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Website Accessibility Rules Are Still on Target

By Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

In 2008, the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and Target Corporation settled a landmark case requiring that the retailer's website be made accessible to the blind. The settlement occurred after a groundbreaking 2006 ruling that California's state disability rights laws applied to the website because of its close link to Target's real-world stores that were already clearly covered by those laws (see, “Targeting new e-Commerce Customers,” in the Dec. 2006 edition of e-Commerce Law & Strategy, at http://bit.ly/MsteA2).

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