Last week the US District Court for the Eastern Borough of New York ruled in the Winegard v. Newsday LLC issued a ruling that could finally get to the heart of the site's accessibility issue so it could be tackled straight…
August 17, 2021, 5:11 pmNewsday has no publicly accessible retail storesStandalone websites not covered by ADANewsday LLC won a dismissal of a deaf person's lawsuit contesting the lack of subtitles in website videos because a New York…
WILMINGTON, Del., August 5, 2021 / PRNewswire / - UserWay, a leader in web accessibility technologies, announced today that its AI-powered accessibility widget is based on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics website to ensure the site is an…
When the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect on July 26, 1990, it concerned access to physical property, but a local business was recently threatened with an accessibility lawsuit over its website.
The unsolicited company was…
What is ADA and what does it have to do with the internet?As a result of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, Congress set out to ensure that businesses and public service providers make significant changes to…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are more than a billion people with some form of disability, one in four adults in the United States alone. Even if you ignore the growing lawsuits, ignore the new ADA laws that…
A blind Winn-Dixie customer who couldn't refill a prescription with a computer wants the entire Eleventh Ward to overturn a ruling that was the first time a federal appeals court said websites were not covered by the Americans with…
Seyfarth Synopsis: The ADA Title III lawsuits on website accessibility filed in federal courts in 2020 rose by a surprising 12% in 2019, although the number of pandemics filed fell mid-year.Numbers refer to website accessibility lawsuits…
After the Eleventh Circle made us wait with bated breath for several years, it finally broke its silence and issued its long-awaited decision in the Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores that Web Sites are not considered public…