It may seem odd to publish a blog post late Friday afternoon. However, just yesterday, I presented at the Accessing Higher Ground Conference and provided a legal update on web accessibility litigation. This is a presentation I give on a…
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Are Your Vendors Living Up to Their Accessibility Promises?
A Dirty Not-So-Little Secret Consulting is a rough business. It’s hard to get rich. The work is constant and involves a lot of late nights. And the only guarantee that you’ll have a roof over your head tomorrow is winning…
Converge Accessibility is at Accessing Higher Ground!
What? This week marks the start of the 23rd Annual Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web & Technology Conference; for Higher Education, Business and the Public Sphere. Converge Accessibility is honored to be able to support this year’s conference as…
Is There Such a Thing as an “ADA Compliant” Website?
What’s All the Fuss About? I’m going to go on a little rant here, so please bear with me… As everyone knows, lawyers can be real sticklers when it comes to wording and I’m no exception. So when I hear…
Interesting Recent Cases on Standing, Mootness and Jurisdiction
Overview In my last post, I noted that new web accessibility lawsuits seem to be slowing down. I suspect the error is a Lexis problem as I just don’t see a nation of litigious plaintiff attorneys foregoing such an easy…
Are Web Accessibility Lawsuits Slowing Down?
Recent Litigation Trend As many of you know, I keep a running feed in Lexis of new web accessibility lawsuits. Recently, I’ve noticed something very strange going on: web accessibility lawsuits have stopped. I’m not saying “slowed down.” Instead, it…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 3)
Welcome Back! In Part 1 we discussed having an Accessibility Statement on your website. In Part 2 we covered making sure that images on your website have an appropriate ALT attribute. Just those two actions alone can greatly reduce the…
Making Web Accessibility Easy
One Heck of a Webinar! As not that many people give webinars on the intersection of law and technology in web accessibility, my webinars have always been pretty popular. Typically, when I was at AppGate, I would get about 150…
Unruh: It’s Not the ADA that’s the Big Concern in Web Accessibility
Thurston v. Fairfield Collectibles Back at the end of August, everything seemed so much more serene on the west coast. Here in Seattle, we were enjoying a brief but beautiful summer– unaware that in a few weeks we would be…
Join Our Upcoming Webinar
Reserve Your Spot Now!! Join Us and 3PlayMedia For Our Joint Webinar(October 15 2PM Eastern) Our friends at 3PlayMedia, an industry leader in captioning services, are hosting a joint webinar in which I will be presenting on a lightweight but…