E-retailers Showing Little Progress On Accessibility

E-retailers, still somewhat in their pre-teen years as an industry are behind on a small, but vocal market. The visually impaired. It seems that while commerce and the internet continue to mold into one another, retail is failing to keep up.

The famous case is National Federation for the Blind’s lawsuit against Target for failing to make their site accessible, mostly via images and the content that goes into the code to allow non-visual users (including search engine crawlers) to understand what the image might be.

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