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.
Website Accessibility Rules Are Still on Target
A recent federal court ruling, <i>National Association of the Deaf v. Netflix, Inc.</i>, held that California's state disability rights laws applied to a website, despite the absence of a bricks-and-mortar store nexus. Instead, the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) pursued the accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of a "website only" firm with no real-world presence ' Netflix.
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