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iTunes to be more accessible

Posted by Thomas Obrey on September 29th, 2008

I found the tidbit below while perusing news.com. This is especially interesting given the recent post I made regarding Target and the National Federation of the Blind, in which Target settled out for a cool $6M.

Apple will be making iTunes more accessible to blind consumers, under an agreement reached with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office and the National Federation of the Blind.

The agreement states that the application will be fully accessible by year’s end, and, drum roll please — Apple will contribute $250K to the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind so they can buy assistive technologies.
Read the news.com snippet, which is brief.  Or the AppleInsider scoop, which is quite lengthy and mentions some Nano changes as well.  -t
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Landmark Accessibility Ruling

Posted by Thomas Obrey on September 11th, 2008

This is an email that a co-worker sent me the other day. It struck a chord with me, and I thought the topic was important enough to share with everyone; so thanks Norm.

You may have heard that Target.com and the National Federation of the Blind agreed to a $6,000,000.00 settlement and rigid, scheduled audits for having an inaccessible site.  As a result, many organizations may want to begin investigating their options for an audit to evaluate the accessibility of their own product(s) or web properties… 

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