For a few months, I’ve been trying to track new regulations or announcements in the Federal Register affecting disability rights. I failed miserably because the word “disability” appears so often in the Federal Register in innocuous ways that I was…
Legal Update: July 2026
Apart from catching a nasty head cold after the ADA Symposium in Phoenix, July was pretty uneventful for me. There also wasn’t much happening in the courts. Even in the 7th Circuit, Plaintiffs Can Still Be Kicked Out: Cole v.…
The Coming Assault on Disability Rights
This post goes way beyond digital accessibility. It should get the usual “red alert” treatment, but it’s much bigger than that. If the past red alerts were like fire alarms in your building, this is more like a tsunami alert…
Legal Update: June 2026
After a couple of quiet months, June had plenty to talk about. New York’s federal courts managed to show off both faces of the Calcano line in the same few weeks and the Central District of California kept feeding cases…
RED ALERT: SBA Advocacy Threatens Entire DOJ Title II Web Rule
We Called It: The SBA’s Weak Case for Killing the Title II Web Rule Unfortunately, it’s back to the barricades. Two years ago, just after the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright v. Raimondo, we predicted that someone would eventually use…
Why I Built Three New Accessibility Bookmarklets
Over the years, I have collected quite a few tools for testing website accessibility. They include browser extensions and bookmarklets, tools built into the browser, and tools we have developed ourselves. Many of the tools I already use can provide…
Bringing the Automated Scanning Series Together (Part 4)
Over the last few weeks I have written about automated scanning tools from a few different angles. We looked at why a scan is the wrong way to start, how a crawl reaches the content a sample cannot, and how…
When Scan Results Become a Legal Risk (Part 3)
The first two posts in this series of articles were about using scanning tools to make a site better, watching the framework over time, and crawling the site to find unique content the test sample misses. This post is about…
Crawling Your Site for the Content a Sample Misses (Part 2)
In the first post of this series, I talked about why a scanning tool is the wrong first step and what tends to work better. The short version is that we start with manual testing on a sample of pages…
Where Automated Scanning Fits in Your Accessibility Effort (Part 1: Getting Started)
One of the things I have noticed over the years is that many organizations begin their digital accessibility effort by buying a scanning tool. It makes sense on the surface. A tool is something we can purchase, install, and point…