ContainerStore.com Receives Two “ADA” Complaints / Lawsuits While Using Usablenet Assistive Custom Overlay

I’m on containerstore.com and what’s important is the- there is a link at the very top, in small gray font, on the right labeled, “enable accessibility”. And so when you enable accessibility a more accessible version of the website is rendered. Now the website, the homepage as we’re on, it looks exactly the same, nothing … Read more

What is a VPAT?

VPAT stands for Voluntary Product Accessibility Template and this is a template that vendors fill out and deliver to procurement officers as a part of the ACR or Accessibility Conformance Report. So we’ll get to that in a second, but a VPAT speaks to and represents a product or service’s accessibility. And so this is … Read more

The Real Problem with Overlays / Website “Accessibility” Widgets

100% of reputable accessibility professionals are against overlays for accessibility on a website. And when I speak of overlays I’m referring to the widgets that you could install on a website and that when clicked present an array of supposed accessibility options. They don’t work. They have never worked. The idea that they actually make … Read more