Target Lawsuit Settled
August 27, 2008
Target and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) have settled the lawsuit regarding accessibility of the Target.com web site.
A summary of the settlement
- Target makes no admission or concession that its website is or ever was inaccessible.
- Target admits no violations of the ADA or any other law.
- The website will be brought into compliance with the Target Online Assistive Technology Guidelines (2MB Word Doc) and will be certified by NFB as compliant with these guidelines. NFB will monitor compliance over 3 years from initial certification.
- Target will pay NFB $90,000 for the certification and first year of monitoring and then $40,000 per year thereafter.
- Target’s web developers will receive at least one day of accessibility training, to be provided by NFB at a cost of up to $15,000 per session.
- Target will respond to accessibility complaints from web site users.
- Target will pay damages of $6,000,000 to the class action claimants, or at most $7000 per claimant, and will pay $20,000 to the California Center for the Blind on behalf of the primary claimant, Bruce Sexton, Jr.
- Payment of legal fees is yet to be determined.