This week, I’m continuing with the second part of my Gaining Clarity on Overlays series. As I mentioned last week, this is part of my work to help the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) develop a set of best…
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Best Practices for Overlays
A few months ago, I received an unusual call from Christopher Lee and Mark McCusker at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). They asked me to work as a consultant for them in two areas-helping develop a grievance process…
Legal Update: May 2022
Here’s my monthlyl legal update a day early! All things considered, May was a pretty slow month in my morning Lexis feed… Stretching the Nexus Requirement: Can a Vending Machine be a Place of Public Accommodation? Courts in California continue…
Converge Accessibility Presentations (May 2022)
A lot of people have been asking us to present at conferences recently. And, because we’re a new company, we’re happy to have any opportunity to get our name out there. ADA Symposium (May 13) A Little Background One advantage…
Legal Update: April 2022
Narrow Nexus Opinions from the Ninth Circuit For several decades, web accessibility lawsuits in many circuits in the United States require establishing a “nexus” between an (inaccessible) website and a traditional bricks-and-mortar place of public accommodation. And for several decades,…
Video: ADA and Websites of Property Professionals
Interested in How the ADA Affects Property Professionals? Earlier this week, I was asked to present by Scott Moore and the folks at E&A Team on the application of the ADA to the websites of property professionals. While this primarily affects rental…
Refining Harm in Web Accessibility Cases: Harty v. West Point Realty
I Missed It… Each morning, my (cough, overpriced, cough) Lexis account gives me a report on all of the new web accessibility cases. I have the first alert set up pretty broadly to first catch every ADA case. ((access! /5…
Legal Update: March 2022
March was a busy month at Converge Accessibility. In addition to DOJ issuing its disappointing guidance on web accessibility, there were also a few interesting legal cases to churn through. This month, I’m also going to try to provide links…
Why We Should Be Disappointed by DOJ’s Web Accessibility Guidance
New Guidance on Web Accessibility from the Department of Justice Last Friday, my friend Josef Pevsner was the first person to reach out to me with exciting news– there was new guidance from the Department of Justice for web accessibility!…
Legal Update: February 2022
A Reminder About Basic Standing Requirements Like last month, February started really slow… and the first case didn’t show up until the second week. In Monegro v. Street Insider, Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25576 (S.D.N.Y. 2022), the Southern District…