Kris Rivenburgh discusses the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) and website accessibility and threads in the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for context.  NYCHRL is a city civil rights law that prohibits discrimination broadly amongst protected classes and one of those classes is disability.  The language used to protect access is very similar to that of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Plaintiffs' law firms are sending demand letters and filing complaints / "lawsuits" against allegedly inaccessible websites under the ADA, NYSHRL, and/or the NYCHRL.

Sources:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/the-law.page

https://www.nyc.gov/site/cchr/law/chapter-1.page#8-107

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/.

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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 find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com.

Transcript:

https://adabook.com/new-york-city-human-rights-law-nychrl-website-accessibility/