Laura and I had the honor of testifying last week in Colorado’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) public hearing for its Proposed Technology Accessibility Rules. I’ve previously blogged about Colorado’s HB 21-1110 (which requires Colorado public entities (including local municipalities)…
Legal Update: January 2024
Happy New Year! 2023 was a good year for Converge Accessibility. In terms of legal cases, however, the year ended fairly quietly. Failing to Remove a Barrier is Not Necessarily Intentional Discrimination First up this month is Martin v. SoundCloud,…
SaaS Products and Accessibility
A week ago, a business colleague asked me if the ADA covered SaaS (software as a service) products and the conversation was interesting enough that I thought a blog post was in order—both to share with others and to help…
Legal Update: December 2023
Happy New Year! 2023 was a good year for Converge Accessibility. In terms of legal cases, however, the year ended fairly quietly. How to Satisfy the “Intent to Return” Requirement in the Second Circuit Over the last year or so,…
A Beginner’s Guide to Litigating a Web Accessibility Case
This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to put together for a long time. At Converge Accessibility, we get contacted by a lot of attorneys (mostly defense but sometimes a plaintiff attorney here and there) and it’s amazing to…
Legal Update: November 2023
It was a slow month in my Lexis feed this month… A Web Accessibility Case from Illinois? As we all know, web accessibility cases are almost always filed in one of three venues: New York, Florida, and California. This has…
Legal Update: October 2023
Anyone who knows me will know that I hate the end of summer. I’m really blessed to live in the Pacific Northwest; the weather is always moderate, we never get too hot or too cold, and we don’t have drenching…
Read Our DOJ Web Accessibility Comments!
Last Tuesday, the Department of Justice’s comment period for it’s draft Title II web accessibility rule closed. At Converge, we were asked to help write comments on behalf of one of our clients and also submitted our own. Here is…
Legal Update: September 2023
Summer is clearly winding down up here in Seattle. And it seems that attorneys are slowly getting back to work. This month, we’ve got quite a bit to discuss. How Some States are Trying to Curb Excessive Web Accessibility Litigation…
Federal Agencies Should Not Follow DOJ’s Lead Right Now
I’ll keep this post short. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that amends HHS’s Section 504 regulation. Overall, this is a positive step. Section 504 protects people with disabilities…





