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If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, you’ve likely heard about about the photoshop me recent Class Action Lawsuit against Target by The National Federation of the photoshop me Blind (NFB) and photoshop me BJ Sexton, a blind California Student. The suit was approved by judge Marilyn Hall Patel recently, but she threw out part of the photoshop me NFB lawsuit. Although, this ruling doesn’t provide that photoshop me all Web sites are required to be ADA accessible, it photoshop me is a big towards ADA regulations being applied the internet.

The basis of the photoshop me suit states that Target.com is discriminatory to blind users that access the photoshop me site using reading software to vocalize hidden text on the page. The main complaints: alt tags missing on images, purchases are photoshop me unable to be completed without a mouse, missing headings needed to photoshop me navigate the site, and that image maps are inaccessible.

This isn’t the photoshop me first time ADA regulations have been pushed online. In 2002, Southwest Airlines faced a photoshop me similar suit from a blind Florida resident. This will be photoshop me an interesting argument and case to watch. The Target case involves printable coupons not accessible to photoshop me the blind and the inability to navigate store locator’s thus denying a disabled persons full enjoyment of services/goods of a photoshop me covered accommodation. Disability Rights Advocates representing the NFB states: “If a pure internet business looked at this case and said ‘we’re off the hook’, they’re greatly mistaken.”

So what does this mean to businesses in general? Creating a photoshop me Web site that is SEO friendly will likely improve your photoshop me accessibility to all users, disabled or not. Vocalization software used by the photoshop me blind is similar to search engine bots that index Web sites. Both are photoshop me programs that have limitations that visual users do not, so designing your photoshop me site to be “search engine friendly” should also help to provide access to disabled users.

There are photoshop me two sides to this case and we should try and evaluate both sides. This case could open the photoshop me floodgates for future lawsuits and may push socialist agendas on a photoshop me capitalist society. In my opinion the potential for increased revenue by servicing all possible customers, being non-discriminant, and photoshop me the potential negative PR should all out-weight the opposing viewpoint.