DEFRAY YOUR EXPENSES FOR WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY As a small business owner or senior manager, you are always looking for ways to improve profit, reduce costs and better serve your customers, clients, an...
Did you get the memo on website accessibility? With the latest legal and regulatory developments, you’d better make sure you did. The time is now for web accessibility in higher education. Literally. ...
ADA compliance People with disabilities expect businesses to take positive steps to comply with the ADA. Businesses that do not take steps to comply may face legal consequences. Several ways to obtain...
A smart business strives to appeal to as many customers as possible and customers with disabilities love to shop and spend money as much as the next guy. There are over 48.9 million living with a disa...
Do you remember life pre-2005? The Boston Red Sox were cursed. Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith was still something to look forward to. Miley Cyrus was barely Hannah Montana, let alone a “...
The Americans With Disabilities Act produced tangible benefits. Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush in 1990, the ADA banned employment discrimination against the disabled and eliminated unn...
In what is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind to go to trial, a Florida federal judge has ruled for a blind man who has filed nearly 70 lawsuits alleging that various companies’ websites vio...
Retailers across the country are getting slammed for operating Web sites that discriminate against the blind or visually impaired. Businesses in New York and California appear to be getting hit the ha...
Seyfarth Synopsis: 2017 saw an unprecedented number of website accessibility lawsuits filed in federal and state courts, and few courts willing to grant early motions to dismiss. Plaintiffs were very...
Accessible websites are no longer optional; they’re a must-have. You probably take being able to surf the web and easily browse content for granted. Most people do. But people with disabilities don’t ...
The January 2018 U.S. federal government shutdown lasted less than three days, but its impacts were felt by millions of people around the country and worldwide — including people who care about web ac...
The first thing that comes to mind when you hear “closed captions” is likely the benefits that they have for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Forty-eight million Americans report having some de...
The recent uptick in discrimination lawsuits based on the Americans with Disabilities Act is affecting organizations of all sizes and industries — including credit unions. Because credit unions are co...
What is Web Accessibility Policy? More than 20% of the world’s population suffers from some sort of disability that may hinder their web access. Web accessibility policy aims to mitigate the challenge...
Did you know that over 30 million Americans over the age of 18 can’t read standard-sized print? It’s true. And 30 million might seem like a large number, but it’s actually on the conservative side. Co...
Criminal Justice Clemons v. Dart, 168 F.Supp.3d 1060 (N.D. Ill. 2016) This case was brought by an inmate in the county jail who used a wheelchair but was not assigned to an accessible room. The jail p...
Your website looks good, is functional and provides a great user experience. But, can a disabled person use it? Can a visually-impaired person understand what your photos and other non-text aspects of...
The challenge of lawsuit mills is a phenomenon uniquely tied to the American civil justice system. Whether it’s consumer products, intellectual property or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), p...
Self-driving cars could revolutionize how disabled people get around their communities and even travel far from home. People who can’t see well or with physical or mental difficulties that prevent the...
Only three months into the new year and we have already witnessed a handful of cases where an employee has asserted discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Two of these cases f...
Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) are now living longer with the majority of individuals reaching middle and even “old age.” As a consequence of this extended longevity they are vulnerable...
Forget everything you know about the marketing funnel. Today, people are no longer following a linear path from awareness to consideration to purchase. They are narrowing and broadening their consider...
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