Topic
Website Accessibility
574 published works
Workforce Bulletin
While Far from a Knockout, the Southern District of New York Strikes a Blow for Businesses Facing Website Accessibility Lawsuits
By Joshua A. Stein, Shira M. Blank
It is no secret that businesses have long been awaiting a court decision that would help stem the surging tide of website accessibility cases – over a thousand of which…
Virginia Disability Law Blog
We’ve Taken Steps to Make Our Website More Accessible to Individuals with Special Needs including Visual and Cognitive Impairments… Read On!
By Sheri Abrams
Here at the law firm of Sheri R. Abrams, utilizing cutting edge technology and services to help empower our clients with disabilities and special needs is of utmost importance to…
Technology and AI
Four-Year Court Battle Between Deaf Advocates and Harvard Over Closed Captioning of Videos Proceeds to Discovery With Some Limitations
By Kristina M. Launey & Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: Four years and two motions to dismiss based on the pleadings later, the National Association of the Deaf’s (NAD) online…
Taking Care of HR Business
Is Your Website Accessible to Disabled Online Job Seeker?
On March 22, 2019, a federal judge permitted an Ohio man’s class action lawsuit to proceed against Ford Motor Company. The lawsuit alleges the company discriminated against disabled job applicants…
Chicago Business Attorney Blog
Is Your Website ADA Compliant?
When the Americans With Disabilities Act passed in 1990, the World Wide Web was only a year old and was not even a commonly used term yet, much less a…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
9th Circuit Reverses ADA Ruling Favorable to Businesses
By D. Andrew Quigley, M. Brett Burns
What must a private business do to ensure that its website complies with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires that places of public accommodation provide “full…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Domino’s To Ask Supreme Court To Consider Whether ADA Website/Mobile App Accessibility Lawsuits Violate Due Process
By Minh N. Vu
Seyfarth Synopsis: Domino’s Likely to File Petition for Certiorari from Ninth Circuit’s Ruling in Robles v. Domino’s. As we reported, the Ninth Circuit held in January that a blind plaintiff…
Employment Law
Robles V. Domino’s—Another Hurdle in Defending ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits?
In another blow to those defending website accessibility cases, brought by legally blind or visually impaired plaintiffs under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the United States Court of Appeals…
Accessibility Defense
Lessons about the ADA from the CSUN Assistive Technologies Conference
By Richard Hunt
I’m just departing from the 2019 Assistive Technology Conference with a few prejudices confirmed but with some new ideas as well. I spoke with a number of companies that sell…
Accessibility Defense
See us at CSUN
By Richard Hunt
I’ll be co-presenting a talk on Website Accessibility Litigation with Jason Taylor of UsableNet Thursday morning March 24 at the CSUN Accessibility Conference CSUN Conference 2019. We will be covering both…