How your small business website can get you sued
Is your website a potential liability? Yeah, it probably is. Over the last three to four years, there has been an “explosion” of lawsuits and claims by disabled individuals asserting that businesses’ websites (and, increasingly, their mobile apps) were not accessible to them because they were not up to code with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, according to Charles Marion, an attorney with Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia. The issue received national attention after a decision this past October by the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a lower court ruling which opened the door for blind people to sue Domino’s Pizza for not making its website accessible. The lower court ruling decided that the ADA not only applies for making a company’s brick and mortar establishments accessible to disabled people, but covers their online properties as well. Dominos is not the only business exposed to these claims. According to a 2019 study, a whopping 98 percent of more t...