The court case that I mentioned briefly before was back in the news recently as a California court agreed the case could go forward as a class action suit.

As Jeremy Keith points out, this ruling has brought some disappointing reactions from some people in the web community. I wasn’t particularly surprised by this—I saw the same uninformed comments when this lawsuit began. However, I have been pleasantly surprised by the mainstream media coverage I’ve seen. In each case, the news correspondent—even though they clearly did not understand the technology behind web accessibility—asked the right question:

If Target can make their website accessible to the blind, why wouldn’t they?

And the answer is pretty simple: There is no reason not to. They can, and they should. Target has already made some progress on improving their website, hopefully the threat of a class action lawsuit will be the incentive they need to finish the job.