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…
New Amendment to AB 1757 Encourages Bad Consulting
Three days ago, California’s state senate amended AB 1757. The new amendments are quite sweeping and I’ve saved out a copy of today’s changes in a separate PDF (although you can also see the same changes in the first link…
Thoughts on California AB 1757
The team at Converge Accessibility has been crazy busy this summer on some exciting and very different projects. For instance, we’ve been working with the Government of Canada to help develop new standards under the Accessible Canada Act and we’ve…
Can Using an Overlay Win a Lawsuit?
Say What?! Earlier this week, Ken and I had an interesting call. One of our clients read Ken’s Legal Update for March and asked if just buying a subscription to AccessiBe could moot an active lawsuit! Now, I’ve got your…
Is Colorado the Next Web Litigation Frontier?
I spent almost all of my time this week helping potential clients in Colorado address web accessibility. Why is that? While most of us tend to think of New York, California, and Florida as the hotbeds of web accessibility litigation, I…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 4)Pulling it All Together
This is the last installment of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…
Legal Update: December 2022
Happy New Year! Looking back over 2022, I’d say that, while district courts in some circuits (i.e. the Third Circuit and Second Circuit) continue bickering over whether the nexus requirement makes any sense in web accessibility cases, most of the…
DOJ and Congressional Updates on Digital Accessibility
It’s getting chilly up here in Seattle but at least we’ve avoided rain. The local news channel reported last night that November is usually the wettest month of the year for us. So far, however, we have mostly had sunny…
Legal Update: October 2022
Now That the Dust Has Settled, What is the Impact of the Winn-Dixie Decision? Quick Background on Winn-Dixie Few decisions have caused as much drama in web accessibility as Gil v. Winn-Dixie. Back in 2017, Judge Robert Scola from the…
Legal Update: September 2022
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.…