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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,…

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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…

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Refining Harm in Web Accessibility Cases: Harty v. West Point Realty

I Missed It… Each morning, my (cough, overpriced, cough) Lexis account gives me a report on all of the new web accessibility cases. I have the first alert set up pretty broadly to first catch every ADA case. ((access! /5…

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…

Why We Should Be Disappointed by DOJ’s Web Accessibility Guidance

New Guidance on Web Accessibility from the Department of Justice Last Friday, my friend Josef Pevsner was the first person to reach out to me with exciting news– there was new guidance from the Department of Justice for web accessibility!…

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…

Legal Update: January 2022

It must be something about winter as the drop in judicial opinions in web accessibility continues to drop. But quantity is rarely an indicator of quality because it has been a tumultuous month indeed. Let’s start with the biggest news…

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Missed our Presentation at AccessibilityPlus? Watch it Now!

Each month, our friends at Accessibility.com pull together great webinars focused on web and digital technology accessibility. Ken was one of the four presenters at January’s event, Trends in Digital Accessibility Lawsuits: What can be Learned from the Thousands of…

Legal Update: December 2021

Happy New Year! Because of my crazy schedule, I’m pulling together this post on the last day of 2021 but it won’t go live until after the New Year. It’s been a real pleasure pulling together my monthly legal update…

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Looking to 2022: What Will Happen in Web Accessibility Litigation

Why Another 2021 Prediction? It’s late Friday afternoon and the sun is setting here on the west coast. So why would I possibly publish a blog post now? Because it’s also New Year’s Eve and it’s a good time to…

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