Accessibility in Canada is about creating communities, workplaces and services that enable everyone to participate fully in society without barriers. The Government of Canada believes that all Canadians deserve the same opportunities and chances at success and is pleased to announce the coming into force of the Accessible Canada Act. Reaching this milestone demonstrates the Government’s commitment […]
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None of the 2020 Presidential Candidates’ Websites Are Fully Accessible to Disabled Voters
When Virginia Jacko found out the first Democratic presidential debates of the 2020 election cycle were going to be held in Miami, she was excited to learn more about the candidates and their policies before they arrived in her city. But as she clicked on the candidates’ websites, she realized that most were not accessible […]
Comcast Launches Eye-Control for the Television
Xfinity X1 Customers With Physical Disabilities Can Now Use Their Eyes to Change The Channel, Set a Recording or Search for a Show Jimmy Curran has Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a condition that affects the part of the nervous system that controls muscle movement, and was among the first customers to get the new X1 […]
Hot Off the Presses: New Cases in CA and NY Strike Blows at Boilerplate ADA Complaints
Retailers and other companies have been increasingly caught up in an explosion of boilerplate claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), focusing on both websites and physical stores (see our previous coverage here, here, here, and here). While the plaintiffs’ bar has had a strong run with these claims in recent years, recent decisions […]
Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
Disclaimer: This post is not about lighthouse, other testing tools perform similarly. It’s about us developers and our responsibility to not blindly rely on automatic testing. Google’s built-in testing tool Lighthouse judges the accessibility of our websites with a score between 0 and 100. It’s laudable to try to get a high grading, but a score […]
The Current Landscape Of Website Accessibility Cases Under The ADA In Florida
Florida has long been considered a hotbed of lawsuits filed under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Certainly, that practice has continued with the most recent trend of ADA cases, namely lawsuits alleging that websites are not accessible to the legally blind or visually impaired. For those defending website accessibility cases under the […]
9th Circuit Court of Appeals clarifies applicability of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act to websites and mobile applications
On January 15, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision with important ramifications for website and mobile application (“mobile app”) accessibility under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). In Robles v. Domino’s Pizza, the plaintiff asserted claims for violations of the ADA relating to alleged accessibility barriers encountered on the […]
Number Of Federal Website Accessibility Lawsuits Nearly Triple, Exceeding 2250 In 2018
[Graph: ADA Title III Website Accessibility Lawsuits in Federal Court: 2017-2018: 2017: 814; 2018: 2258, 177% increase over 2017. *The number of cases that could be identified through a diligent search.] As we had predicted, the number of website accessibility lawsuits (i.e. lawsuits alleging that plaintiffs with a disability could not use websites because they were […]
The Muddy Waters of ADA Website Compliance May Become Less Murky in 2019
The Scope of the Issue The Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) has been the source of a tremendous amount of litigation since President George H.W. Bush signed it into law in 1990. Over the past few years, Plaintiffs’ counsel have developed a cottage industry of sorts by filing thousands of lawsuits alleging that company […]
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