Ken Nakata, Author at Converge Accessibility

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Federal Agencies Should Not Follow DOJ’s Lead Right Now

I’ll keep this post short. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that amends HHS’s Section 504 regulation. Overall, this is a positive step. Section 504 protects people with disabilities…

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Legal Update: August 2023

There has been a real slowdown in my Lexis feed this month. Are the courts are issuing fewer opinions? Does Lexis have fewer people collecting and entering opinions? Are both factors at work because it’s summer and even the nerdiest…

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New Amendment to AB 1757 Encourages Bad Consulting

Three days ago, California’s state senate amended AB 1757. The new amendments are quite sweeping and I’ve saved out a copy of today’s changes in a separate PDF (although you can also see the same changes in the first link…

New DOJ Web Accessibility Regulation is a Disaster

Life seems so much brighter a week ago when the Disability Rights Section (DRS) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent their new web accessibility regulation to the Federal Register. At the time, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who leads…

Legal Update: July 2023

July was a busy month for the courts and serial ADA web accessibility plaintiffs… Another Strange Nexus Opinion As readers of this blog know, I am not a fan of the nexus standard. In a nutshell, this standard is used…

Thoughts on California AB 1757

The team at Converge Accessibility has been crazy busy this summer on some exciting and very different projects. For instance, we’ve been working with the Government of Canada to help develop new standards under the Accessible Canada Act and we’ve…

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California AB 1757 Update

Everyone at Converge Accessibility hopes you and your family are having a safe and wonderful Fourth of July! So why am I not having a beer and tofu hot dog right now? Well, even though I just posted my monthly…

Legal Update: June 2023

Summer came early this year in Seattle. June can be an iffy month but, this year, it was glorious. The days were mostly sunny with little humidity and high temperatures around 70 degrees. When I used to live on the…

Can Web Developers Be Held Liable?

When they are hit with a web accessibility complaint, most businesses say that they relied on their web developers to make sure that their websites would be accessible. Yet, when they find out that it is really hard (if not…

Legal Update: May 2023

Up here in Seattle, May is usually a cool, rainy month. Frequently, this extends into most of June, leading local denizens to refer to the month as “Juneuary.” So far, this year has broken that pattern as we’ve had brilliant…

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