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Website Accessibility
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Global Policy Watch
AI Accessibility Software Provider Settles FTC Allegations
By Yaron Dori, Max Larson
On January 3, 2025, the Federal Trade Center (“FTC”) announced that it reached a settlement with accessiBe, a provider of AI-powered web accessibility software, to resolve allegations that the company violated Section…
Inside Consumer Protection
AI Accessibility Software Provider Settles FTC Allegations
By Yaron Dori, Max Larson
On January 3, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it reached a settlement with accessiBe, a provider of AI-powered web accessibility software, to resolve allegations that the company violated Section…
Inside Global Tech
AI Accessibility Software Provider Settles FTC Allegations
By Yaron Dori, Max Larson
On January 3, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it reached a settlement with accessiBe, a provider of AI-powered web accessibility software, to resolve allegations that the company…
Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor
Misleading Artificial Intelligence Claims by Marketer of Website Accessibility Widget Lead to $1 Million FTC Settlement
By Kim Phan, Lori Sommerfield, Aileen Ng
On January 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release announcing that accessiBe Inc. and accessiBe Ltd. (collectively, accessiBe) agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations of…
Labor & Employment Insights
Untangling the Web: SDNY Looks at ADA Internet Accommodations
By Sarahanne Y. Vaughan, Anne R. Yuengert
Wait — why is my favorite employment law blog detouring into the world of website accessibility? If your business has a website, keep reading. If you read our blog regularly,…
Understanding the ADA
Trial Judge Gets Hammered for Not Accommodating a Probable Disability of Trial Counsel and the ADA Not Even Involved
I started writing this blog on election day, which turned out to be very interesting by the end of it with President Trump winning both the popular and electoral votes.…
Understanding the ADA
Southern District of New York Splits Within Itself: Internet Only Business Not a Place of Public Accommodations
Today’s blog entry goes back to the issue of whether an Internet only business website is subject to title III of the ADA. As we have discussed previously, such as…
Employment Law Lookout
SDNY Chief Judge to ADA Plaintiff: Court Closed for Business to Online-Only ADA Web Cases
By: John W. Egan and Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent decision holding that web-only businesses cannot be sued over the accessibility of their website under the ADA is the first of…
Technology and AI
SDNY Chief Judge to ADA Plaintiff: Court Closed for Business to Online-Only ADA Web Cases
By: John W. Egan and Minh N. Vu Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent decision holding that web-only businesses cannot be sued over the accessibility of their website under the ADA is…
Understanding the ADA
Can a Court Sanction an Attorney By Imposing Attorney Fees on the Attorney in an ADA Matter?
I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. This week’s blog entry is a case out of the Second Appellate District of the Court of Appeal of the State…