It has been a year since I wrote a similar article Web Accessibility Sues and Settlements in 2014 and it is the end of 2015, time to help my readers look at some suits and settlements in 2015. Before I take you to the recent suits, let me walk you through some of the accessibility initiatives few countries or states have taken this year.
- European Commission proposes to make products and services accessible
- The Accessibility for Manitobans Act
- accessible India campaign
It’s exactly 7 years since WCAG 2.0 is recognized as W3C Recommendation 11 December 2008. So I thought of publishing this article today.
Below are few legal suits and settlements in 2015
Note that all the below links target to external websites.
- edX settlement agreement with the Department of Justice(pdf)
- Harvard and MIT for Failure to Caption Video
- NFB suit against Scribd(pdf)
- Montgomery County employee software case court decision(pdf)
- NFB settlement with New Jersey Community College
- CVS Talking Prescription Container Settlement Agreement
- Seattle Public Schools and web accessibility settlement
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa Settlement Agreement
- Chaves County, New Mexico Settlement Agreement
- Champaign County, Illinois Settlement Agreement
- DeKalb, Illinois, Settlement Agreement
- Fallon, Nevada Settlement Agreement
- Galveston County, Texas Agreement
- Isle of Palms, South Carolina Settlement Agreement
- Lumpkin County, Georgia Settlement Agreement
- Madison County, New York Settlement Agreement
- McLennan County, Texas Settlement Agreement
- Merced County, California Settlement Agreement
- Nueces County, Texas Settlement Agreement
- Carnival Corporation Settlement Agreement
- Bank of America Agreement
- Argyle Independent School District (PDF)
- National Museum of Crime and Punishment Settlement Agreement (PDF)
- Higley Unified School District Resolution Agreement (PDF)
- Reebok ADA Class Action Lawsuit
- Blind woman sues Red Roof Inns, alleging inaccessible website
- Legal action against the NBA over website accessibility
- Blind woman sues Toys “R” Us, alleging violation of federal disabilities act
- Advocates for disabled sue Husted over voting, website problems
Please notify me in the comments if you have any more items I can add to the list. I will be more than happy to do so.