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…
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A Different View into Accessibility Overlays
Something Old, Something New A Google search for “do accessibility overlays work” will provide you with several websites that mostly put accessibility overlays/plug-ins in a negative space. This isn’t new information and probably doesn’t come as a surprise. There are…
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…
How to Document Accessibility Issues – Part 2
Get Noticed This is part 2 of the series on How to Document Accessibility Issues. As mentioned in part 1, documenting accessibility issues is a critical, but often overlooked skill. While documenting issues is not ‘fun’ and can also be…
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!…
Did You Miss It?!
DEI Program Presentation A couple of weeks ago, we had the privilege of presenting with some friends at the 37th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity. One of the sessions Ken presented live with Natalie Hadley from…
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…