[wac] UT Accessibility Institute petition and Target case settled

[Ken Petri]

Hi All,

The University of Texas, Austin, Accessibility Institute has lost
university support and will close. The Institute was an inspiration
for our own Web Accessibility Center. There is an online petition you
can sign to encourage UT to rethink its decision and keep the
Institute going:

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SavetheInstitute

Also, you may have heard that the NFB suit against Target.com has been
settled. There are a couple of interesting blog posts here:

Jared Smith of WebAIM outlines the details and comments:
http://www.webaim.org/blog/target-lawsuit-settled/

and

Bob Easton's post at Access Matters, which responds in part to Jared's post:
http://www.access-matters.com/2008/08/29/target-lawsuit-settled-exactly-as-it-should-be/

Hope you are enjoying your long weekend!

ken
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 Ken Petri
 Program Director
 OSU Web Accessibility Center
 102D Pomerene Hall
 1760 Neil Avenue
 Columbus, Ohio 43210
 Phone: (614) 292-1760
 Fax: (614) 292-4190
 mailto:petri.1 at osu.edu
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