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Digital Accessibility Isn’t Just About Customers, Recent ADA Settlement Shows ADA, Education, Lawsuits With digital accessibility lawsuits almost tripling in 2018, organizations are more aware than ever that their digital assets need to be accessible to users with disabilities. But, while organizations may know they need to make consumer-facing websites and mobile apps accessible, all-too-often internal websites […]

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https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/ Summary This article examines the rationale for organizations to address accessibility. It includes tangible and intangible benefits, and the risks of not addressing accessibility adequately. It explores how accessibility can: Drive Innovation: Accessibility features in products and services often solve unanticipated problems. Enhance Your Brand: Diversity and inclusion efforts so important to business success are accelerated […]

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Monday, August 20, 2018 Apple has become the target of a new lawsuit, one that claims the iPhone producer’s website is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by not being fully accessible to blind or visually-impaired consumers, due to the way the website itself is coded. According to the filing, Mendez is described as a […]

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POSTED ON JANUARY 15, 2019 On January 15, 2019 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave a big win to digital accessibility in a case against Domino’s Pizza. The appeals court reversed, ruling that the ADA covers websites and mobile applications and the case can stay in court. The Opinion Summary, prepared by the court’s […]

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Banking industry feels the onslaught and needs to mitigate risk. By Brian E. Cole II Over the past year there has been a surge in the number of website disability access lawsuits being filed against businesses with consumer-facing websites in virtually every industry. The banking industry has been one of the industries hit the hardest, […]

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