Target.com being sued over lack of image alt tags
Target.com is being sued by the National Federation of the Blind and a college student for some alleged usability issues with the target.com Web site.
Among the problems:
• Lack of alt text [for images]
• Image maps that neither have alt text or a functional equivalent on the page
• requirement for a mouse to perform various functions on the site
The last part is interesting as old design of the target.com Web site only used non-alt-attributed image submit buttons (as many of us who design do) but they also required the submission of x,y coordinates to execute the form submission. The issue is that a keyboard only user could not submit a form (like, say from hitting the Enter key).
Apparently the form button issue has been fixed, but the lawsuit is still being pursued.
More info:Webstandards.org write up on the case
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