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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Federal Agencies Should Not Follow DOJ’s Lead Right Now

New Amendment to AB 1757 Encourages Bad Consulting

Thoughts on California AB 1757

Can Using an Overlay Win a Lawsuit?

Is Colorado the Next Web Litigation Frontier?

Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 4)Pulling it All Together

Legal Update: December 2022

DOJ and Congressional Updates on Digital Accessibility

Legal Update: October 2022

Legal Update: September 2022