When an advocacy group sued Target Corp., it claimed that Target's Web site is incompatible with software used by the blind and called that a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California refused to dismiss the claims, leaving many questions unanswered. Target maintained that Title III of the ADA applied only to a physical place. Jenner & Block's Carla Rozycki and David Haase discuss the decision's impact on entities that host Web sites.
January 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
An advocacy group has sued Target Corp., claiming that Target’s Web site is incompatible with software used by the blind and that such incompatibility is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
In National Federation for the Blind v. Target Corp. (__ Supp.2d __, 2006 WL 2578282 [N.D. Cal. Sept. 6, 2006]), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California refused to dismiss those claims, leaving many questions unanswered for entities operating Web sites.
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