A defense attorney purchased my ADA compliance course today, and it got me thinking that this course is perfect for anybody who wants to defend against ADA website litigation. So this would be better than any CLE course because no CLE course will go into the the detail and the depth and the strategy that … Read more
Here’s a slight of hint that you may have not yet come across. It’s the idea that you can combine a widget with manual remediation and then make the website wholly accessible. So it could work something like this our widget is going to fix 70% of your website’s accessibility issue. You just have to … Read more
Let’s take a look at the state of ADA website compliance in California. So I’m going to work through a document. I have a number of bullet points, starting with the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the ADA. So this is one of the primary laws in play. The other primary law in play is … Read more
There are many ways to make money in digital accessibility. And reading through this document I have sharing the screen with me. One way is a job. So you could find a position as an accessibility coordinator, a chief accessibility officer, a designer, a developer, etc. And I’m not just talking about employment at an … Read more
No matter what organization you are running, whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, you’re a multinational corporation, accessibility gets really expensive really fast. And so you want to get out of this mindset or approach where you are continually sourcing accessibility to an external third party provider. You need to bring accessibility in house. So what … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a settlement agreement between United States and Meijer. Meijer is a supermarket chain, and it’s a result of a DOJ private enforcement action. And this one concerns digital accessibility. But for today’s video, I want to focus on a few things that were mandated in this Settlement Agreement … Read more
I am surprised at how many people have messaged me and asked for advice on starting a business around digital accessibility. And usually the idea is starting some type of consulting business where audits are offered, etc. So I’m making this video, I’m sharing the split screen with a document, and I’m going to read … Read more
I am regularly asked about compliance with other laws. So will this audit, and if I remediate according to this audit, will it make me compliant with other laws outside of the ADA or other than the ADA? So sometimes this is within the scope of the United States and any other various laws and … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with the heading ADA Compliance Checklist for 2023. And there are really two best practices for ADA website compliance. These best practices come from the Department of Justice and the private enforcement actions that they’ve taken, which have basically resulted in settlements with these different organizations. … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with the heading ADA Web Compliance Checklist for Restaurants. So some considerations you want to keep in mind. First subheading, menus. It is extremely important that you make sure your menu is accessible. And what I have seen many times from smaller restaurants is that menus … Read more
Sharing this split screen with me is a complaint filed in California State Court, and this complaint is from the Hill Law Firm, which I have not come across this law firm yet. And let’s go ahead and look through the complaint, and let’s start off with one note is that the defendant is JoAnn’s … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a PowerPoint titled ADA website compliance training. It is for my ADA Compliance Course. You will find nothing even remotely close to my course in the market. And in this PowerPoint presentation, I will explain why. So first, let’s start off with the objectives for the buyer. This … Read more
With more people now aware of what AI is and what it can do and its prospects for the future, it’s important to point out how ridiculous and stupid these AI claims by overlay vendors are. Overlay widgets have been portrayed as this cutting-edge revolutionary technology for quite some time, literally years. Many overlay vendors … Read more
VPATs are not really for websites. They can be if the website is part of a product or service, or it is the product, but it is not, VPATs are not traditionally to be filled out for websites. So of course we know that VPATs are a template, the template that the Accessibility Conformance Report … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a complaint that was filed today, April 25th, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. So, this is the first circuit and typically when we’re looking at website accessibility litigation, it involves the Second Circuit, New York, California, the Ninth Circuit, or Florida, the … Read more
Kris: Okay, I’ve got a different type of episode today. Joining with me is my friend David, and David is a business owner, and when he found out the work I’m involved in, he had no idea that this was even, that litigation was even possible for not having a website or having a website … Read more
Kris: Okay. Today, I would like to welcome back Richard Hunt. Richard and I, we had a previous interview and I will link to that one below, but I want to reintroduce Richard. Richard is a board certified civil trial lawyer with over 35 years experience in state and federal court. He has a national … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with the heading ADA Website Compliance. And this is still a topic that many people do not fully understand. And in part, it’s because this is an inexact term. So ADA website compliance originates from ADA compliance. And ADA is the acronym for the Americans with … Read more
Continuing on with my mini series on the most active plaintiff’s law firms, today I have a complaint that was filed in September 16, 2022. The signing lawyers were the law office of Pelayo Duran and Roderick Hannah. So let’s look at the claims inside this complaint. One is a homepage button company logo is … Read more
On Reddit’s small business subreddit, there is a post where someone received a complaint filed against their small business and later updated everyone about the process. This update was posted recently in December of 2022, and the original post was from two years ago. A class-action lawsuit was filed against one very small business, and … Read more
I’ve been looking through anecdotes regarding ADA website compliance on Reddit, and two that I found interesting in this small business thread, and I will quote them and link to them below, are settlements of $20,000 and $2,000. So the $2,000 is extremely low, and then there’s this $20,000, and I’m going to read from … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with the heading, can you get sued again? And I’m going to read through the bullet points. You can definitely get sued again and again and again. And sometimes this happens with the same law firm. Actually, a few weeks ago, I was looking through complaints … Read more
Sharing this split screen with me is a document with a heading, ADA website compliance timeline. And so here are some time ranges that you can expect when trying to make your website accessible and follow best practices for ADA compliance. First you need to select a vendor and contract with that vendor. Sometimes this … Read more
I have come across multiple defense law firms that offer a quote unquote ADA website audit, and I highly recommend that you do not go through a defense law firm for an audit. While they may be familiar with the plaintiff’s law firms that they deal with, they do not understand accessibility and they are … Read more