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,…
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…
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…