Here’s my monthly legal update a day early! All things considered, May was a pretty slow month in my morning Lexis feed… Stretching the Nexus Requirement: Can a Vending Machine be a Place of Public Accommodation? Courts in California continue…
Screen Magnifiers Are No Longer The Only Option For Low Vision Users: What Are They Using?A Guest Blog Post by James Warnken
TL;DR Here’s a question for accessibility experts: what technologies do low vision users actually use in 2022? I surveyed hundreds of low vision users through social media and learned that the assumption that low vision users only use screen magnifiers…
Converge Accessibility Presentations (May 2022)
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…
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…
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…
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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…