Gawd, is it April 1st already?
Are they supposed to provide Braille monitors?........
This is absurd!
This judge should have laughed this suit out of court!
If Yawn Effing Kerry had been elected, all blind people would now be able to see!
What in hell is Target supposed to do? Go to every blind pseron's home and wave a hand over them and "make them see"?
LMAO...this is legal insanity at its best. I'm surprised this man isn't suing Playboy or Penthouse instead.
What that means is that special software designed for that purpose must be able to "read" the textual material.
This is not an easy task. For one thing the average sighted individual really has a difficult time understanding what it is the blind don't see.
The private sector has been exempt from this requirement ever since the legislation was passed that made it mandatory for the government.
Did someone bother to look at the law first?
I guess all government services and retailers must now provide teletext functionality on their telephones for those who are deaf. (How would one accomodate Helen Keller?)
My sister designs websites (made 2 or 3 for me for free, heh-heh), and she makes sure that all her sites are accessible up front. I don't agree that the gubmint should butt in, but for a big retailer like that to ignore the blind is just stoopit. 10 million people, more or less.
I’m fortunate that I don’t have any physical handicaps and I’m sure being blind, deaf or paraplegic doesn’t make life any easier.
The private sector, sometimes because of mandate and some times because it just makes good business sense, are often wiling to make reasonable accommodations but where does it end? This makes no sense.
What if I am illiterate? Is Target or Wal-Mart responsible to send someone who can read to my house every week to read the weekly circular for me? What if I’m intellectually impaired? Does my local retailer have to assign me a personal shopper to make sure I make good purchases because I’m not able to make good choices for myself?
I can’t imagine all the different handicaps that might have to be accommodated and the fiscal burden that creates and how we all end up paying for it.
I think of the Discovery Channel series, “Little People – Big World”. What an inspiration this family is. They don’t let their physical challenges get in their way and they prosper and survive without and perhaps because the government and the world doesn’t make things “easy”.
BTW - Why is it that the drive up ATM at my bank has keypads in Braille?
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I think the big problem with stories like this is that people without disabilities, and I mean serious disabilities like being parapalegic or blind or deaf, are simply ignorant of all the little things that suddenly become almost insurmountable challenges. Handicapped people face these situations time and time again every day. Unless you are affected by such disabilities, it really is hard to imagine the little things we take for granted that become almost impossible to a disabled person.
I read that 95% of all lawsuits in the world originate in the U.S. Not surprizing.
This will be the legacy of GHWB, more than "read my lips" or premature evacuation in Iraq. D@mn his noblesse oblige infected hide.
A riotously funny case--soon to be dismissed, in a federal appellate court near you!
Mark