{"id":44,"date":"2008-08-28T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-09-28T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:20:05","slug":"target-settles-lawsuit-over-blind-accessibility-to-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/target-settles-lawsuit-over-blind-accessibility-to-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Settles Lawsuit Over Blind Accessibility to Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Target has settled a lawsuit over the inability of the blind to access their website. CNET News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-10028109-93.html\">reports<\/a> that Target will establish a $6 million dollar fund for settlement claims and promised to &#8220;make its site fully accessible to blind visitors&#8221;. The basis of the suit was that the lack alt-text tags for images on the site made it difficult, if not impossible, for blind customers to use site and that this was a violation of state and federal disability rights laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target has settled a lawsuit over the inability of the blind to access their website. CNET News reports that Target will establish a $6 million dollar fund for settlement claims and promised to &#8220;make its site fully accessible to blind visitors&#8221;. The basis of the suit was that the lack alt-text tags for images on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/target-settles-lawsuit-over-blind-accessibility-to-website\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Target Settles Lawsuit Over Blind Accessibility to Website&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}