Kris Rivenburgh comments on an article, "New ADA lawsuit target? Local Brewery Websites" that reads like it was written in 2018 in the sense that website accessibility litigation is novel.  Part of this is because the defense attorney comes across as new to the space.  

While breweries may be a newer niche target, the scenario described in the article is standard: Pacific Trial Attorneys / plaintiffs' lawyer Scott Ferrell sending a demand letter and then filing a complaint in California court on behalf of plaintiff, Luis Licea based on “access barriers” that make allegedly make the website incompatible with software.  Pacific Trial Attorneys has been one of the most, if not the most, active plaintiffs' law firm in this space for several years.  

This article illustrates how there are still pockets of people who are completely unaware of the need to make their website accessible and how not addressing accessibility creates real risk of litigation.  

Read the article:  

https://thebusinessjournal.com/new-ada-lawsuit-target-local-brewery-websites/ 

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Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/.  

Connect with Kris directly on LinkedIn:  

https://www.linkedin.com/company/adabook

Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org.  

Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets.  You can learn more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com.

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https://adabook.com/many-unaware-website-accessibility-risk-litigation/