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.…
Read Our IAAP Blog Post on Overlays
I’ll keep this short. A few months back, the folks at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) asked me to put together a blog post on the work that I’ve been doing for them on the dreaded “Overlays Project.” I…
Best Practices for Overlays– Part 3
I’ll keep this update short. I’m moving further development of the overlays best practices back to email only. If you would like to participate in this discussion, feel free to drop me a message at ken.nakata@convergeaccessibility.com. If you have participated…
Legal Update: February 2022
A Reminder About Basic Standing Requirements Like last month, February started really slow… and the first case didn’t show up until the second week. In Monegro v. Street Insider, Inc., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25576 (S.D.N.Y. 2022), the Southern District…
Legal Update: January 2022
It must be something about winter as the drop in judicial opinions in web accessibility continues to drop. But quantity is rarely an indicator of quality because it has been a tumultuous month indeed. Let’s start with the biggest news…