Sharing the split screen with me is a document with a heading cost of ADA website lawsuit. And so today we’ll break down how much it costs to settle one of these and give you realistic numbers. So for the defense attorney, as the first bullet point, I have allocated $5,000. This can range. On … Read more
Florida is the third most litigious state when it comes to ADA website litigation. And I’m on, I’m screen recording the Miami subreddit, and there’s a post and there’s a few replies to this post that I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention. The post, the original poster writes, have you dealt with an ADA … Read more
With the expected release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 in May 2023, I am currently using the working draft to summarize the different success criteria found in WCAG 2.2 Conformance Level AA. Using my checklist, which is sharing the split screen with me, I’m going to read through and quickly summarize each … Read more
Version 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is expected to be released in May of 2023. So in one to two months, we should have documentation for version 2.2. Until then, we have a working draft. And using that working draft, I have created the guide that is currently sharing the split screen with … Read more
You can now go through Accessible.org for both audit and remediation services, and I think this is extremely helpful because it consolidates all of your energy and efforts into one place, one transaction. Whereas, if you go to most other accessibility providers, they will not remediate your website. So, they will provide you an audit, … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a complaint filed by the Acacia Barros Law Firm in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division. And this is a part of a mini series where I’m going through the different plaintiffs law firms and looking at the material claims of … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with information on the cost of website accessibility services and this is for if you go through me at accessible.org. So the starting price for an audit is typically $3,500 and then the range usually goes up to $7,500. It’s not to say that that price … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me, I have a document headlined by audit pros and cons. So in this video, we will go through the pros and the cons of manual website accessibility audits, which there are no automated audits, but just for clarification, this is for a full manual audit, and we will go … Read more
As an attorney involved in litigation, a big part of your job is to paint a picture. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re on the defense side or whether you’re on the plaintiff side, you want to paint a picture that gives the strongest, that gives your position the strongest look. So you want to … Read more
I’m sharing a split screen with a complaint filed in March of 2023 from Gottlieb & Associates. And the signing attorney is Dana Gottlieb, also listed are Michael LaBollita and Jeffrey Gottlieb. And now let’s go through the claims of inaccessibility in the complaint. First is lack of alternative text. Second is empty links that … Read more
I am sharing a split screen with a complaint filed by the Manning Law Firm a few years ago, signed by lawyer Joseph Manning. The accessibility issues named in this complaint are still relevant and commonly seen by active plaintiffs law firms. The Manning Law Firm is based in California, and I will list the … Read more
I am sharing a split screen with an older complaint filed by the Pacific Trial Attorneys law firm. The signing lawyer is Scott Ferrell, and I’m going to go ahead and read through the accessibility issues that are claimed in the complaint. Missing alternative text, Empty or missing form labels, Empty headings, Empty links, Empty … Read more
Sharing this split screen with me is a complaint filed by the Mizrahi Kroub Law Firm and the signing lawyer is William Downes. And so we’re going to look at the accessibility issues named in this complaint. The accessibility issues are: A. The website’s images and other non-text elements lack alternative text. B. The website … Read more
In video three of my most active plaintiffs law firm series, we’re looking at the Shaked Law Group with Dan Shaked and we’re looking at the accessibility issues that are claimed in his complaint. And this complaint was filed in February of 2023. And so on the screen with me, I’m going to read … Read more
In this video, we will be looking at a complaint filed in March of 2023 by the Stein Saks law firm, with the lawyer signing the complaint being Mark Rozenberg. Let’s go through some of the accessibility issues that are being claimed: The website lacks alternative text: many features on the website lack alternative text. … Read more
This video is the first in a mini-series I’m going to record over actual complaints filed in court. We’re going to look at the accessibility issues that are actually being claimed by the most active plaintiff’s law firms. I think this is so helpful because it will take out some of the ambiguity and make … Read more
I just released the WCAG course, and I see this as the perfect complement to the ADA compliance course, but it also stands alone. I recognize that people around the world want to improve their accessibility and incorporate the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines into their different digital assets. I’ve already got a checklist and guide … Read more
Alongside me on the screen is a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet contains my WCAG 2.1 AA checklist. So just in and of itself, the spreadsheet provides value because it’s dynamic in that you can sort through the different columns and adjust the display in how you would like. But I’ve added a few additional columns … Read more
Accessibility improves usability and one way accessibility is going to help everyone is with the discontinuing of insufficient color contrast to for marketers to achieve the action they want. So on the screen I have this pop-up from a WordPress plugin and it asked for feedback and then you can enter the different feedback and … Read more
Something I’ve always disliked about the web accessibility marketplace is there are no viable options for small businesses and even medium-sized businesses. And this is because many website owners simply cannot afford $3,000 and up for an audit. So what ends up happening is many website owners choose an overly widget. And the reason they … Read more
I occasionally come across the defeatist notion that it’s impossible to make our websites WCAG conformant, or that we will never make our website ADA compliant. And I completely disagree. When it comes to WCAG conformance, what this really amounts to is a list of 50 things that we need to account for, and it’s … Read more
I received an email from someone asking about a freelance service, and the service promised to manually go through his website and fix accessibility issues and that each page would pass a WAVE and an Axe scan. In my reply, one of the things I wrote back is to keep in mind that you can … Read more
There is still confusion when it comes to website accessibility and what can be done through automation. So let’s start with all work must be performed manually, and that is the case when we are auditing a website, so finding accessibility issues and remediating a website, fixing accessibility issues. And we can’t combine automation with … Read more
There’s a video made by a lawyer, and his channel is Functional Lawyer. And the video is on ADA compliance for websites, and it ranks really well. The problem is that he doesn’t fully understand the material, so he gets some key things wrong. He has most things generally right. But as I’m listening to … Read more