Following a settlement with the Department of Justice, Rite Aid will make scheduling vaccines on its website more accessible to persons with disabilities, The Hill reports.
According to court records, Rite Aid will guarantee that material concerning the COVID-19 vaccine and its platforms for scheduling vaccinations comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which are designed to make websites accessible to persons with impairments.
The prior website of the drugstore was particularly hard for blind individuals and those who had difficulties using a mouse, according to a DOJ statement on the settlement.
According to the announcement from the Department of Justice and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Rite Aid will routinely test its site for any new faults that make vaccination scheduling unavailable and correct the errors as soon as possible.
Many websites carrying information on COVID-19 vaccines and the virus in general, according to a Kaiser Health News study published in February, violated disability rights laws, particularly because of impediments to blind individuals signing up for vaccines.
Last month, the Department of Justice achieved agreements with municipal and state government agencies in New York to improve the accessibility of COVID-19 immunization websites for persons with visual impairments.
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