[Wsuug] Target + Accessibility

[Reese]

Adam Crosby wrote:

> The case didn't make it through court - they settled.  

Oh... bother.

> ADA application 
> to private websites has not yet been established - this would have been 
> the first case.

Now see where we are. Methinks you miss a distinction betwixt "private,
commercial" and "private, non-commercial." But I might be wrong.

> It was a $6m award PLUS an agreement to modify their site to be 508 
> compliant.  I would like to think that was the main point, rather than 
> collecting punitive damages.

Given the smallish dollary award, that's pretty much a given.

> No decision - it was an out of court settlement. 

Frack.

> I think they settled specifically to avoid a decision.

I wonder what clouded their various minds.

Reese