I depend on Target to keep me in hair gel and Pringles and I can’t even begin to calculate the amount of money I’ve spent in their stores over the years. But I’m dismayed to read that Target’s website is still inaccessible to users with visual impairments. I seem to recall commenting on this case previously and I can’t understand why Target simply won’t promise to make its website accessible and spare itself a lot of bad publicity. But what this case really illustrates is that perhaps disability advocates should–once the political climate is a little more friendly–push for an amendment to Title III of the ADA to explicitly cover websites that receive a certain threshold of traffic. Granted, crafting that amendment might be tricky, but it might be the only way to force corporate stonewallers like Target to see the light regarding web accessibility.
Target has also adopted a policy that allows its pharmacists to decline to dispense contraception if they are opposed to doing so on moral grounds. I used to think that it was pretty hip for a discount department store, but I won’t shop there until they change that