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And Web accessibility advocates everywhere are completely deflated. I know I’m a couple weeks late on this but I had to chime in. I’ve been following this case over time in hopes that we’d get some clarification to bring the Americans with Disabilities Act in line with the current media landscape.
As with with most settlements, Target admits no wrongdoing, which from a legal standpoint is a fact, even if it isn’t a true statement (odd how that works out, eh?). The Web Standards Project spoke rightly on the lawsuit aspect of the case…
Whatever the legal ramifications may be, those of us who advocate accessibility don’t want to make this into a series of legal battles. There are no winners there. (Okay, besides the lawyers.) We want people to realize that engaging with people with disabilities well before the threat of legal action arises is always the best approach. When a company stalls and takes a case to court, delays, public relations nightmares, and skyrocketing costs are all that happens.
Target wasn’t legally wrong, but their Web developers should be fired. That’s all I’m saying. Lazy, uninformed coding practices hurting Target’s business (denying blind users from purchasing goods online). This isn’t about legal right and wrong, this is about allowing your customers to buy products!
It’s not that hard, folks. There may be resource realities that cause accessibility problems in small, unimportant parts of your site, but when it comes to core functionality you should have you stuff in line.
Target should not be wasting it’s time proving it’s innocence, it’s executive should be chopping heads of those who are keeping their customers from buying their products!
I have written much about Web accessibility in the past, and a few things on this case specifically. Check it out.
I was approached by a local development company Big Creek Software to design a UI and marketing site for their new Web app: ComplaintWorthy.
My involvement: Logo (in collaboration with Dan Shea), Graphic Design, XHTML, CSS
This is the second site I’ve designed for Weblogs Inc. Style*Dash is a blog dedicated to the fashion world: trends, celebrities, clothing, accessories.
My inolvement: Graphic Design (including logo), initial xhtml/css template.
These last three weeks I have had the extreme fortune of working on the Chumby Web site. I was the XHTML/CSS guy for a dream team of developers. Susan Kare did the graphic design, Zina Powers working on content and Duane Maxwell cranking out some amazing Rails code. It was a lot of fun. (The rest of the Chumby team is brilliant as well, those are just the three I worked most closely with.)
Chumby is basically a cute, cuddly, Internet ready clock radio with a LCD touch screen and flash player that can stream media via wifi. “Web 2.0 meets low end consumer devices“, as it is being heralded by O’Reilly, who ran the Foo Camp where it made it’s debut yesterday.
Chumby is completely open, inside and out. You can hack the chumby’s hardware, software, casing/shell/covering, completely customizing it as you see fit. The real question: will it run Quake? This will probably be the first thing I attempt to achieve with it :).
It is already generating quite a bit of noise in the blogosphere. (Including being written up on techcrunch and engadget) I’m excited to see where it goes. More than that, I am excited to see a chumby in person. One is apparently making it’s way to Iowa in the near future. I’ll tell you all about it as soon as it arrives.
It’s been a busy month for me. I created this blog design for Weblogs Inc. (A subsidiary of AOL, they created Engadget, and a few other sites you’ve heard of.). The blog is all about healthy living, eating, wellness, fitness, etc. We were going for a clean, pure, organic, healthy feel with the site. Special attention in the design had to be given to Weblogs Inc’s design conventions and advertising requirements. Overall, I’m very happy with the outcome.
My involvement: Logo and Graphic Design, XHTML, CSS.
