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Website Accessibility
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Privacy and Cybersecurity
Senators Send AG Sessions Letter Seeking Clarity on Website Accessibility Under ADA
Seyfarth Synopsis: Not long after a similar Congressional appeal, Senators sent a letter to Attorney General Sessions urging action to stem the tide of website accessibility lawsuits plaguing businesses. On…
SC Employers’ Blog
World Wide Web Commission Releases New Standards for Website Accessibility
By Drew Rawl
When it comes to accommodating clients’ needs, whether your website is accessible to those with vision, hearing, or cognitive disabilities is not often a concern that readily comes to mind.…
Understanding the ADA
11th Circuit speaks on Website Accessibility and the ADA
My daughter started high school today! City Schools of Decatur always start school on August 1. They operate on a six weeks on and one week off system with two…
All About Advertising Law
New Website Accessibility Guidelines: W3C Publishes WCAG 2.1
By Douglas B. Mishkin, Karel Mazanec, Venable LLP
Any organization with a publicly-facing website—in other words, virtually any organization—should be aware that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently published its most recent update to the Web Content…
Technology and AI
Website Access and Other ADA Title III Lawsuits Hit Record Numbers
By Kevin Fritz, Kristina M. Launey, Minh N. Vu, Susan Ryan
Seyfarth Synopsis: If ADA Title III federal lawsuit numbers continue to be filed at the current pace, 2018’s total will exceed 2017 by 30%, fueled largely by website accessibility lawsuit…
Hunton Retail Law Resource
Website Accessibility Update: Eleventh Circuit Holds a Private Settlement with One Plaintiff Will Not Moot a Nearly Identical Lawsuit By Another
By M. Brett Burns, Susan S. Joo
Recently, the Eleventh Circuit held that a private settlement entered into by Hooters and a first-filed plaintiff did not moot a nearly identical, later-filed website accessibility lawsuit by a different…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Website Accessibility Update – Eleventh Circuit Holds that a Private Settlement With One Plaintiff Will Not Moot A Nearly Identical Lawsuit By Another Plaintiff
By Susan S. Joo, M. Brett Burns
As website accessibility lawsuits continue to surge, places of public accommodation oftentimes battle multiple lawsuits filed by different plaintiffs represented by different attorneys. Even after entering into private settlements, which…
Employment Law
Website Accessibility Cases Under The ADA—What Are Owners And Operators To Do?
When the Americans with Disabilities Act—the ADA—became law in 1990, websites, which are so common a part of business and life these days, did not exist. Nearly 30 years later,…
Understanding the ADA
Why You don’t Want to be a Test Case and How to Stop Serial website Plaintiffs
I hope everyone is enjoying the summer. Here in the Atlanta area, it has gotten really hot, which is to be expected this time of year down here. I just recently…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Members of Congress Urge DOJ to Declare That Private Website Accessibility Lawsuits Violate Due Process
By Minh N. Vu, Samuel Sverdlov
Seyfarth Synopsis: Responding to the surge of website accessibility lawsuits filed under Title III of the ADA, 103 members of Congress from both parties sent a letter to Attorney General…