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From: Donald Evans
Date: Apr 8, 2011 1:15PM

This is taken from a slide that Jim Thatcher presented at CSUN this year.
It may answer some of the questions.

Errors on 6 Target.com pages

Date

Alt-text

Forms

Errors/page

6/5/2005

1287

17

217

2/6/2006

NFB files suit against Target

2/7/2006

1678

18

283

11/18/2006

73

0

12

2/10/2007

29

0

5

4/8/2008

34

0

6

8/27/2008

NFB/Target settlement

1/15/2010

17

4

4


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I wasn't at all involved in these efforts, but the settlement occurred
> in August of 2008. The settlement
> (http://www.nfbtargetlawsuit.com/final-settlement-and-commerce-clause)
> had a target date of 2/28/2009 for full accessibility for blind users.
> I don't think the full accessibility enhancements were launched until
> later in 2009. The NFB certified the target.com web site in February
> 2010 (http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&;ID=551).
>
> Of note is that according to the agreement, monitoring should continue
> through this year. Hopefully they'll catch and address the many new
> accessibility issues that have cropped up on the site in the last year
> or so (for example, none of the 3 "skip" links work, headings have
> largely disappeared, keyboard accessibility is poor, etc.).
>
> Jared Smith
> WebAIM.org
>