May Stores to Improve Access for Disabled

May Department Store Co.’s 430 stores will be renovated to make their aisles, fitting rooms and bathrooms more accessible to disabled shoppers under a class-action settlement.

The agreement is the first by a national department store chain on merchandise access under the Americans With Disabilities Act, said Matthew Dietz, a lawyer who sued the parent of Lord & Taylor, Hecht’s, Robinsons-May, Filene’s and other stores.