[nfbcs] Suing a seemingly accessible web site

[Nicole Torcolini]

	I can only find a few minor problems, such as one of the buttons has
an X as a label (probably means close) and there are a few unlabeled
graphics, but nothing major. Also, one of the bolded texts is not a heading,
but it is not that big of a deal given that it is at the top of the
navigation area--they probably thought that having both the navigation and
the heading would be over kill. I also skimmed the first part of the HTML,
but nothing popped out at me as being wrong. I mean, the nav tag also had
role="navigation", which is redundant, but it is not something that has any
effect, nor is it even something that can be detected without reading the
HTML.
	I did not visit any of the pages besides the first one, but, without
knowing what page to investigate for problems, I am also lost as to what
this person finds wrong with this website. It's not perfect, but it is
certainly a lot better than some of the websites that I have visited.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christopher
Chaltain via nfbcs
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 7:03 PM
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Cc: Christopher Chaltain
Subject: [nfbcs] Suing a seemingly accessible web site

I was contacted by a lawyer today because one of his clients is being 
sued under the ADA because their web site is not accessible. I went to 
the web site and I couldn't find a single issue with the site. In fact, 
it may be the most accessible and easiest to use shopping site I've ever 
visited. The web site is https://www.evolutionsalt.com/

If anyone goes to the web site and finds any issues with it, please let 
me know.

I'm obviously very much in favor of making web sites accessible, and I'm 
not opposed to using the ADA and a law suit as a last resort to force a 
company in complying with the law. I'm also very much against frivolous 
lawsuits against sites that are accessible just to get some kind of a 
settlement for a nuisance lawsuit. I think this makes blind people look 
bad and petty, and it makes it harder for us to address issues with 
sites that are legitimately inaccessible.

BTW, this lawyer just reached out to me since he knew I was blind and 
used the web.


-- 
Christopher (CJ)
Chaltain at Gmail


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