Topic
Website Accessibility
574 published works
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
The Latest ADA Shakedown: Website Compliance
The Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) has been a tremendous source of litigation since its passage nearly thirty years ago. The ADA was originally put in motion to provide…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
Fourth Circuit Says Inability to Get Information from Website, Without More, is Not Enough to Establish Standing to Sue
By Minh N. Vu
Cross-Posted from ADA Title III Blog Seyfarth Synopsis: Courts in the Fourth Circuit are taking a hard look at a plaintiffs’ standing in website accessibility cases. In a small but potentially important…
Technology and AI
Fourth Circuit Says Inability to Get Information From Website, Without More, Is Not Enough to Establish Standing to Sue
By Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Courts in the Fourth Circuit are taking a hard look at a plaintiffs’ standing in website accessibility cases. In a small but potentially important…
Ohio Employment Law Matters
You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide from Website Accessibility Obligations
Website accessibility seems to be a topic that companies choose to ignore until it is too late. Is your website compliant, and does it need to be? Jamie LaPlante, a…
Accessibility Defense
ADA Website litigation may get Supreme Court review – Domino’s fights on
By Richard Hunt
Domino’s Pizza has filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court challenging the Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling in favor of Guillermo Robles.* The Court’s…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
In ADA Website Accessibility Cases, Remediation May Be a Successful Defense
By Jeffrey Goldman, Tracey Diamond, Victoria Summerfield
Q. What can I do to protect my company from lawsuits claiming that our website is not accessible to visually-impaired individuals? A. Companies, universities and other organizations around the country…
Business and Commercial
SDNY Dismisses Website Accessibility Lawsuit Based on Mootness and Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
By: Kristina M. Launey and Samuel Sverdlov Seyfarth Synopsis: A SDNY judge dismissed a website accessibility lawsuit finding that the company mooted the allegations in the complaint by remediating the…
Accessibility Defense
Accessibility moots a website accessibility claim – a surprising decision that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
By Richard Hunt
On Tuesday, June 4 Judge Katherine Failla of the Southern District of New York issued a critical decision finding that a website accessibility case could be mooted by simply fixing…
Workforce Bulletin
As Summer Approaches, the SDNY Once Again Provides Hope for Businesses Exhausted by Repeated Website Accessibility Lawsuits
By Joshua A. Stein, Shira M. Blank
While businesses have long grown weary of the plaintiff bar’s seemingly endless stream of website accessibility lawsuits, it appears that judges in the SDNY may be increasingly feeling the same…
SDNY Blog
Judge Failla Concludes That Kroger’s Updated Website Moots ADA Lawsuit Over Accessibility for Visually Impaired
In an opinion today, Judge Failla dismissed as moot an ADA lawsuit accusing the supermarket chain Kroger of operating a website that isn’t accessible for the visually impaired. Kroger apparently…