Happy belated International Day of Persons with Disabilities! Up here in Seattle, the weather was exquisitely sunny and crisp. This month, my Lexis feed churned out more nexus cases, as courts struggle with trying to make sense of what the…
DOJ and Congressional Updates on Digital Accessibility
It’s getting chilly up here in Seattle but at least we’ve avoided rain. The local news channel reported last night that November is usually the wettest month of the year for us. So far, however, we have mostly had sunny…
U.S. Law and Web Accessibility
Overview Last week, Jeff posted about his presentation at Educause Annual Conference 2022 on behalf of AbleDocs. I also did a “live online” presentation at the same event. While I frequently give an update on web and digital accessibility, this one…
Legal Update: October 2022
Now That the Dust Has Settled, What is the Impact of the Winn-Dixie Decision? Quick Background on Winn-Dixie Few decisions have caused as much drama in web accessibility as Gil v. Winn-Dixie. Back in 2017, Judge Robert Scola from the…
Legal Update: September 2022
Last month, I noted a slow down in web accessibility cases and expected the pace to pick up in September. But I was wrong. This month has been the slowest month for web accessibility legal opinions for over a year.…
Website and Software Applications Accessibility Act Introduced
This is a short post passing on the news that my wife (Laura Ruby) read about on NFB’s site today that Senators Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Sarbanes (D-Md.) introduced the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act (S. 4998) and (H.R. 9021)…
Podcast with HB Litigation Conferences
Podcast with HB Litigation Conferences Just a quick heads up for those of you who follow podcasts. Hiram Kuykendall, Chief Technology Officer at MicroAssist and I participated in an interesting podcast on the Role of Litigation and Regulation in Making…
Watch Our Presentation with 3PlayMedia
Another Great Webinar A few months back, the folks at 3PlayMedia asked me if I would be interested in a presentation that summarizes some of the current confusion in web accessibility litigation– particularly in California. If you have followed this…
Legal Update: August 2022
When I was at the Justice Department, August was a notoriously slow month. At first, I blamed the summer heat but there’s more to it than just that. Lawyers aren’t terribly different from other people. With September around the corner,…
California Court of Appeals Rules that Unruh Doesn’t Cover Websites of Purely Online Companies
At the beginning of this month, a California state court of appeals in the Second Appellate Division ruled in Martinez v. Cot’n Wash, Inc., 2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 673 (Cal. Ct. App. 2022) that, absent proving intentional discrimination, the Unruh…