Last week, a California State Court became the first in the nation to rule that a retailer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act due to a website that is not accessible to individuals with vision-related disabilities. As we have previously reported, courts have ruled on whether the ADA applies to websites, but have always stopped short
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Website Accessibility Lawsuits By the Numbers
Website accessibility is an evolving and complicated topic, about which we’ve written many times. Thanks to delayed regulations and the Department of Justice’s changing positions on the issue, businesses have been caught off guard and plaintiffs’ attorneys are capitalizing on the uncertainty. We have seen a surge of demand letters and lawsuits against public accommodations alleging inaccessible websites. Like
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Regulatory Update: Movie Captioning and Audio Description Regulations in the Final Stages of Review
As we reported in July of 2014, the DOJ is working on final regulations that would require movie theatres with digital screens to show movies with closed captioning and audio description.
At a cost to the industry that DOJ estimated will be between $138.1 and $275.7 million, the proposed regulations would require that all movie theatres with digital screens
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