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,…
Communication Around Digital Accessibility Must Improve: How Users and Businesses Alike Are Failing to Advance Digital Accessibility
Overview When it comes to enhancing usability and accessibility on your website, do you ask your audience? Do they know how to get a hold of you when they run into a challenge or barrier? Do they believe you care…
Does Accessibility Stifle the Creative Process?
Don’t Shoot the Messenger Over the last 15+ years I have regularly presented at accessibility conferences and have also conducted several training sessions on the topic of creating accessible digital content. More than once I have been told by some…
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…
Read Our IAAP Blog Post on Overlays
I’ll keep this short. A few months back, the folks at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) asked me to put together a blog post on the work that I’ve been doing for them on the dreaded “Overlays Project.” I…
Legal Update: July 2022
Wow, July has been an exceptionally slow month in my Lexis web accessibility feed. For the whole first half of the month, not a single case popped up in my feed! Almost two years ago, I blogged about a slowing…
DOJ Announces New Title II ADA Web Accessibility Regulation
I’ll make this quick. A few minutes ago, my wife (Laura Ruby) gave me a heads up that my old office at the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new regulation for web accessibility under Title II of the Americans…