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Blind group seeks change at Target.com: “Jacobson, 55, has been blind since birth. With special software that reads Web pages and his keystrokes aloud to him, Jacobson is able to shop on the Internet with Best Buy, Wal-Mart and many other retailers. But not with Target.

Disability advocates say the Target case could set a precedent requiring all U.S. retailers to make their websites accessible to the blind and others with disabilities.

‘This is the first case in the country where a court ruled that the ADA applied to a website,’ said Mazen Mohammed Basrawi, a Berkeley, Calif., lawyer who’s handling the case for the National Federation of the Blind. ‘We think thousands of businesses will take note of accessibility issues.”