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...Bruce Sexton can help it. Sexton is 26, blind, and celebrating an unprecedented victory: A federal court decision last month ruled that he and the National Federation of the Blind could sue mega-retailer Target for not making its website accessible to the disabled. Though Sexton and the federation must still prove their case, the ruling gives them an excellent shot - and will almost certainly persuade companies nationwide to redesign their websites with the disabled in mind...
...knew exactly how many disabled shoppers there were at the time, but the number was surely in the millions, and that meant lots of cash going unspent. So the merchants widened their aisles, replaced their stairs with ramps, and displayed their goods in ways that allowed blind people like Sexton to tell what they were buying. But the economy's doors did not open wide for the disabled until 1992, when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect...
...Most importantly, perhaps, the city held its first large convention, a meeting of the American Library Association that drew 17,000 delegates, in June. Meeting and convention planners were watching it closely. "If Library had been a failure, it would have been a serious problem," says Deborah Sexton, president of the Professional Convention Management Association. The gathering went off without a hitch, as long as you don't make much of the fact that it coincided with the arrival of 300 National Guard troops, an event that received widespread news coverage. Many associations, at the urging of nervous board members...
...can’t arrest your way out of these problems,” referring to the recent rise in Boston’s murder rate. In Boston, there were 75 homicides—the highest in ten years—last year, Boston Police Department Sergeant Thomas Sexton told The Crimson last month. Barrios said that he believes he would have more impact on crime rates as a district attorney than as a legislator. “Where the rubber hits the road in criminal justice is in the DA’s office,” he said...
...years, while violent crime in Boston is skyrocketing, part of a nationwide trend of heightened violence.The number of Beantown shootings increased by 34 percent in 2005, according to Boston Police Department (BPD), while the violent crime rate in Cambridge dropped less than 1 percent. According to BPD Sergeant Thomas Sexton, there were 75 homicides in Boston in the last year, “the highest in ten years.”Sexton attributed the majority of violent crimes in Boston to the city’s juvenile population.“It’s groups of young, youthful people...