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Accessible iTunes

Apple’s iTunes and their related service, iTunes U, will be improved to allow for their use by the blind after a settlement between Apple, the National Federation of the Blind and the Massachusetts’ Attorney General. As part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to make the services compatible with screen reader and braille software.

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Target Lawsuit Settled

The Target Corporation have agreed to a $6 million settlement of the lawsuit filed against them by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) regarding the inaccessibility of Target.com.

The original complaint, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), cited various problems with Target.com - images that lacked alternative text; missing page headings and site facilities that could not be used by non-sighted keyboard navigators.

As part of the settlement, Target have agreed to:

• Pay the original claimant (blind college student Bruce Sexton) $20,000.
• Establish a $6 million fund for the payment of additional individual claims.
• Ensure that the Target.com website meets a set of agreed assistive technology guidelines and achieves NFB Nonvisual Accessibility Certification.
• Ensure that blind screen-reader users can access the same information and engage in the same transactions as sighted visitors.
• Allow NFB to monitor the site’s compliance for the next 3 years.

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