Blindness is a Spectrum Blindness is a spectrum and can affect people in a variety of ways. A visual disability cannot be corrected with contacts, glasses, or surgery. For me, my visual disability is caused by genetics, which cannot be…
Legal Update: September 2022
Last month, I noted a slow down in web accessibility cases and expected the pace to pick up in September. But I was wrong. This month has been the slowest month for web accessibility legal opinions for over a year.…
Website and Software Applications Accessibility Act Introduced
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…
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…