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…
Section 508 and New “Dear Colleagues” Letter
In the last week, I’ve come across a few legal developments that, while they sound amazing, just seem to put us back in a place where common sense could have left us unperturbed. Section 508 and Orozco v. Garland First…
When Mootness Works and Fails in Web Accessibility Cases
At Converge, we work with a lot of attorneys who are representing companies that get sued for web accessibility. Most of them have the good sense to just settle their cases immediately—and then start making their sites accessible. This is…
Legal Update: April 2023
In terms of interesting cases, April offered a respite after a busy March. Thank goodness because other work at Converge has been going crazy! Purely Online Companies are Vulnerable to Lawsuits (Especially in New York) Okay, the headline here is…
Legal Update: March 2023
March started out slowly with hardly any cases, but then by the middle of the month, some interesting cases started showing up in my Lexis feed. All in all, I’d say it was one of the more interesting months in…
2023 International Accessibility ConferencesDid You Miss It?
Overview Every year the accessibility conferences kick off around March. The 2023 year is no different. The PacRim conference was held March 6 and 7 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The CSUN conference was held March 13 thru 17 in Anaheim, California.…
Ask AI – Accessibility Scanners vs Manual Testing
Poking at the Robot Overlords Last we spoke with ChatGPT, one of the more popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines today, we got ChatGPT’s opinion on how effective accessibility overlays are compared to coding to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).…
Legal Update: February 2023
At Converge Accessibility, our blog posts normally go out at 9:00am Pacific every Monday morning. This week, however, I held back until Wednesday so I could be sure to capture all of the cases that came in during the whole…
Ask AI – Accessibility Overlays
Robot Overlords With the recent resurgence in popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) many worry if robots are going to take over the world. It is likely already too late to worry about that. While we wait for our Robot Overlords…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 4)Pulling it All Together
This is the last installment of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…