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Hunt to Speak at the 3rd Annual Digital Accessibility Legal Summit

By Richard Hunt

May 7, 2021

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On October 7-8 I’ll be joining Jason Taylor of Usablenet and Jeremy Horlick of ADA Site Compliance at American University’s Digital Accessibility Legal Summit in a panel discussion of accessibility overlays, widgets and plug-ins titled “The Great Accessibility Overlays Battle.” You can find the complete program at www.accessibility.legal. As you know, the use of widgets and overlays has generated some controversy, with makers of this software claiming they can create an accessible website and…

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Same old wine in a brand new bottle – Pursuit of Justice, Inc. and the FHA

By Richard Hunt

April 28, 2021

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I had forgotten that this classic song was from Loggins & Messina until I looked it up after getting an old demand letter packaged by a new firm. I have blogged before about Legal Justice Advocates, a front for a group of attorneys who sent hundreds of demand letters making unsustainable claims about website accessibility under the Fair Housing Act.¹ Their business was taken over by the Portell Law Group² when the original members of…

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Because of Winn-Dixie: the Eleventh Circuit takes a conservative stand on website accessibility.

By Richard Hunt

April 9, 2021

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On April 7 the Eleventh Circuit issued what is likely to be among the most important ADA decisions in the last twenty years. (6) In Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., 2021 WL 1289906 (11th Cir. Apr. 7, 2021) the Eleventh Circuit not only rejected the idea that Title III of the ADA covers websites as public accommodations, it also adopted a very limited view of the circumstances in which websites would be required to be accessible…

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Quick Hits – April Fools Edition

By Richard Hunt

April 7, 2021

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If foolishness were limited to one day a year this blog would be well overdue, but a glance at the news – legal, political or other, shows that every day in April can be April fools day, so I make no apologies for the delay in getting this out. The difference between accommodation and modification under the ADA and FHA Any discussion of S.W. Fair Hous. Council v. WG Chandler Villas SH LLC, 2021 WL 1087200…

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Covid-19, sneeze guards and the ADA

By Richard Hunt

March 23, 2021

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I got an email yesterday from John Garra at Square One Architecture¹ with a short paper on an aspect of physical accessibility and Covid-19 that frankly had not occurred to me. The sneeze guards that have been put up at most sales counters may, and frequently do infringe on the space required for those with disabilities to access the counter. I think this is the first non-mask related Covid-19 item I’ve seen. Sales counters are…

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Quick Hits – Vernal Equinox edition

By Richard Hunt

March 18, 2021

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Madeira was traditionally aged in barrels that crossed the equator twice, the heat and time fortifying and sweetening the wine. Like a cask of Madeira the sun will cross the equatorial plane of the earth in a few days, but you won’t have to wait for the next crossing in the fall for a quick hits blog. Here’s the news. What if someday never comes? The classic Creedence Clearwater Revival song asks what will have…

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Murder or just a misunderstanding? The Fifth Circuit on disparate impact discrimination

By Richard Hunt

March 3, 2021

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ICP v Lincoln Properties and its “progeny.” In the last days of the Trump administration HUD promulgated a new regulation concerning disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act whose intent was very clearly to make such claims difficult even to plead, let alone prove.¹ Its implementation remains stayed by a federal court, but in the Fifth Circuit that may not matter because earlier Fifth Circuit cases are even more restrictive. Prompted by the discussion…

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Quick Hits – Hearts and Flowers Edition

By Richard Hunt

February 14, 2021

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Valentines Day, which has been in the stores since December 26, has finally arrived in reality. Since I last blogged a few weeks ago the courts have continued to decide cases and the blogosphere has continued to cover, or mis-cover, accessibility related news. Here’s a sweet collection of matters to read after you’ve finished your celebration of the day. WCAG 3.0 – Will it really matter at all? The preliminary draft of WCAG 3.0 has…

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Quick Hits – assembly line edition.

By Richard Hunt

January 26, 2021

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With more than 40 new decisions in the last two weeks it hasn’t been easy getting this blog out. I’m not the only lawyer with too much to do too fast, as the following cases demonstrate. The problem with industrial litigation In a classic episode of “I Love Lucy” she and her friend Ethel get a job in a chocolate factory but find they can’t keep up with the assembly line and have to resort…

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Happy New Years – 2020 ADA and FHA retrospective

By Richard Hunt

December 31, 2020

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Here’s a toast to the end of a bad year. I don’t know anyone who won’t be happy to see 2020 behind us, but it’s worth looking back at how the law of accessibility developed in the last year. Fair Housing Act developments were bracketed by two events, one of which was scarcely noticed but could be important. In February, to considerable fanfare, HUD rolled out its new Guidance on requests for accommodation concerning animals.¹…

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Hunt to Speak at the 3rd Annual Digital Accessibility Legal Summit

Same old wine in a brand new bottle – Pursuit of Justice, Inc. and the FHA

Because of Winn-Dixie: the Eleventh Circuit takes a conservative stand on website accessibility.

Quick Hits – April Fools Edition

Covid-19, sneeze guards and the ADA

Quick Hits – Vernal Equinox edition

Murder or just a misunderstanding? The Fifth Circuit on disparate impact discrimination

Quick Hits – Hearts and Flowers Edition

Quick Hits – assembly line edition.

Happy New Years – 2020 ADA and FHA retrospective

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