04 Oct, 2024 SDNY Deals A Blow To ADA Website Accessibility Litigation By Caren Decter The Southern District of New York is quickly becoming a less favorable venue for serial plaintiffs bringing website accessibility...
15 Sep, 2021 EDNY holds that stand-alone websites are not subject to the ADA By Caren Decter In April, I posted about the Eleventh Circuit’s landmark Winn-Dixie decision—holding that websites in and of themselves are not subject...
08 Apr, 2021 Circuit Split Deepens on Website Accessibility as Eleventh Circuit Reverses the Winn-Dixie Decision By Caren Decter Gil v. Winn-Dixie was the first “website accessibility” case to go to trial. The 2017 decision—which opened the floodgates for similar...
23 Feb, 2021 No Injury-No Access: A Federal Judge Closes The Door on ADA Claims Over COVID Shopping Hours. By Tricia Legittino At the onset of the COVID pandemic, Walmart, along with many retailers, advertised that it would make its stores accessible during...
18 Feb, 2021 You're Invited: "Legal Trends in Digital Accessibility" Webinar By Caren Decter Ensuring that your website, app, and social media are accessible to persons with disabilities is not only a sign of inclusion and good...
28 Oct, 2020 Proposed 'Online Accessibility Act': Will it Limit ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits? By Caren Decter The number of website accessibility lawsuits continues to increase. On October 2, 2020, the Online Accessibility Act was introduced in...
27 Apr, 2020 The End of ADA Gift Card Litigation? By Caren Decter Last October, I blogged about a flood of “copy-and-paste” gift card litigation against retailers alleging that gift cards must be...
30 Oct, 2019 The Next Wave of ADA Lawsuits: Are Retailers Required to Emboss Their Gift Cards with Braille? By Caren Decter We have previously highlighted the wave of “website accessibility” lawsuits filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”). ...
18 Jul, 2019 Fixing Your Website Can Moot ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits By Caren Decter The rate of ADA website and mobile app accessibility lawsuits filed in federal courts is approaching one every working hour. And in 2019,...
07 Jan, 2019 Beyoncé’s Company Sued Over Website Accessibility By Caren Decter On January 3rd, Beyoncé’s company Parkwood Entertainment LLC was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging that it denies...
06 Dec, 2018 ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits: What Advertisers Need to Know By Caren Decter Plaintiffs have filed thousands of lawsuits (including class actions) alleging that commercial websites are not accessible to the blind...