Legal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility

Advocates for the disabled won a major victory yesterday, when a federal judge in California ruled that the ADA applies to the Internet. Specifically, to Internet retailers. The National Federation of the Blind brought the suit against Target, whose online store has serious obstacles for disabled, particularly vision impaired, users. This is a major ruling on the ADA, and will have serious ramifications throughout the Web. But it's critical to making the enormous potential of the Web accessible to everyone.