May was a noticeably calmer month with hardly any cases to report on. That’s not to say it’s been a slow month after HHS extended the deadline of its new Section 504 web accessibility requirements back a year. California Courts…
HHS Delays the Section 504 Web Accessibility Deadline
Three weeks ago, I warned that HHS was preparing to postpone the Section 504 web and mobile accessibility deadline. Well, it happened. On May 7, HHS published an Interim Final Rule that extends the compliance deadline by one year. Recipients…
Legal Update: April 2026
April was a quiet month in the courts. The action this month was elsewhere. On the regulatory front, the DOJ published an interim final rule extending the Title II web accessibility compliance deadlines by one year, and HHS is threatening…
RED ALERT: The HHS Section 504 Rule Is in Danger
Three weeks ago, I wrote about DOJ’s Interim Final Rule, which delayed the ADA Title II web accessibility deadline. I called it what it was: a needless and legally shaky procedural move that harmed people with disabilities. Today, the same…
DOJ Delays the Title II Web Accessibility Deadline — Don’t Sit Back
On April 20, 2026, the Department of Justice published an Interim Final Rule extending both compliance deadlines for the 2024 Title II web accessibility rule by one year. State and local government entities with a total population of 50,000 or…
Legal Update: March 2026
March brought a concentrated run of decisions touching nearly every phase of ADA web accessibility litigation — from what damages are actually recoverable after a Title II win, to how the work product doctrine protects counsel-directed audits, to the continuing…
Getting Past the FUD: A Day-One Compliance Strategy for the New ADA Title II Web Accessibility RuleFear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Just because digital accessibility is new doesn’t mean that it has to be difficult
This post is a follow-up to my previous post urging readers to ask the OMB and DOJ not to delay or modify the DOJ Title II web accessibility rule. As explained here, the new rule won’t cause a flood of…
RED ALERT: The DOJ Title II Web Accessibility Rule is in Danger!
Last June, I wrote about the growing threats to the DOJ’s ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule. That warning feels understated now. If you care about the accessibility of state and local government websites, read on. There are credible rumors…
Legal Update: February 2026
This month, there wasn’t much activity in the courts but there was a ton of legislative activity. Plus, there is movement at DOJ and OMB, which I’ve come to see as not a good thing. No Nexus in Prince Street…
Legal Update: January 2026
Happy New Year from Converge Accessibility! The year is already off to a quick start, but from some unusual places like Utah, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Washington state. In fact, I didn’t find anything interesting to report from the usual hotbeds…