Is Your Website Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired?

Is Your Website Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired? National Law Review, February 1, 2016
U.S. Department of Justice is taking notice of the increase of Plaintiffs’ firms sending out demand letters warning that if businesses do not enter into a settlement agreement and agree to use their consultant to make the website accessible and pay their attorney’s fees, they will file a lawsuit. While wage/hour lawsuits continue to be filed at record rates, the plaintiffs’ bar is now flirting with a new type of class action lawsuit which poses a threat to any employer that operates a website. These lawsuits allege that company websites are inaccessible to the blind and/or visually impaired and therefore violate Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and various states’ laws.