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Happy Accessible Clients is our Goal

Tweet It’s always good to feel appreciated.  A huge part of providing our professional service lies in how happy and grateful our clients are. In particular, a project we worked on with a non-profit last year has proved fruitful.  They had us perform an inspection, determine a scope of work, and then did construction to [...]

Web Accessibility?

Tweet The New York Times has noted the rise of ADA lawsuits for blind shoppers on websites. http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/morning_call/2013/03/online-retailers-face-ada-lawsuits.html Web accessibility is particularly easy to discover, but difficult to for the layperson to understand where to begin. I don’t mean to get too into the topic here, but there are some easy to note violations: Use [...]

July 1st, 2013 the day to watch out for

Tweet SB 1186, which has far reaching changes for the ADA is an attempt to help businesses be more compliant with the ADA without hurting them. One of the requirements of SB 1186 is that as of July 1st, 2013, leases on commercial property will need to state whether or not a CASp inspection was [...]

ADA Lawsuits without Financial Gain

Tweet Many of the ADA lawsuits are filed by serial litigants.  There are some litigants, however, who do not seek financial gain.  Stakeholders often villianize ADA lawsuit plaintiffs, but its difficult to villianize those who don’t make money from the suit. A former Ms. Wheelchair South Dakota is suing eight Sioux Falls businesses for making [...]

ATM ADA lawsuit

Tweet ATM lawsuits have happened before, but not a class action suit. If you have an ATM at your site, you are liable for it, even if it is not yours.  Quoted below is some requirements of ATMs Speech OutputMachines shall be speech enabled. Operating instructions and orientation, visible transaction prompts, user input verification, error [...]

ADA Lawyer faces his own ADA lawsuit

Tweet This is how widespread ADA compliance problems are: Even an attorney who regularly files lawsuits regarding ADA violations at businesses has violations at his site.  Strange thing, he claims that this suit itself is frivolous but faces the very real fact that his visitors can only see him if they use the stairs. The [...]

AB 223: Cure period Bill in CA legislation

Tweet There is a bill in the CA legislation, AB 223, that will introduce a cure period of 30-60 days for violations. This does not get around the fact that issues that need to be fixed need to be fixed, even in the case of a lawsuit.  Anyone who understands the nature of disabled access [...]

DOJ to change menus to become ADA compliant on College Campus

DOJ to change menus to become ADA compliant on College Campus

Woman suing Taco Bell for ADA issues

We have heard a wide variety of opinions from attorneys on what is a reasonable accommodation. I think it safe to say though, that aa drive through is not an accessible route for someone who cannot get service in any other way.

Attorneys in other states have caught on to what attorneys in CA already know

Tweet There has been a sharp increase in the number of ADA lawsuits in the New Orleans area. To read more about it, you can turn to this article. http://legalnewsline.com/in-the-spotlight/238513-ada-lawsuits-see-increase-in-new-orleans-area