Websites that violate disability laws squeezed for financial settlements in the US


Federal and state law say online sites must be accessible to, among other things, screen readers, software that reads the material out loud for the blind. — Christian Wiediger on Unsplash

Andres Gomez is a serial litigant.

That is, Gomez, who says he is legally blind, looks for websites that are not accessible to him and sues them for violating state and federal disability laws.

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