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…
DOJ Announces New Title II ADA Web Accessibility Regulation
I’ll make this quick. A few minutes ago, my wife (Laura Ruby) gave me a heads up that my old office at the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new regulation for web accessibility under Title II of the Americans…
A Better Approach to the Nexus Test
I have been thinking about writing this blog post for some time. It reflects my changing opinion over the course of over twenty years working in web accessibility. During that time, I’ve come to believe that the so-called “nexus” test…
Legal Update: June 2022
I hope everyone had a safe and festive Fourth of July! I’m really excited to be back to my monthly legal update—because it means that I’m not blogging about overlays! So let’s jump right into some of this month’s interesting…
Legal Update: May 2022
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…
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…
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!…