supreme court accessibility screen reader

In recent years there’s been an uptick in lawsuits against companies for failing to build accessible websites, according to the Goods. If taken up by the court, the case could represent a major turning point in how companies accommodate people with disabilities on the internet. However, rather than developing ways to adapt its technology to support users with disabilities, Domino’s, with support from national business groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the Restaurant Law Center, is petitioning the U.S.’s top court to hear the case, CNBC reports. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed and in January ruled in favor of Robles. Robles and his attorneys argued that federal Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) protections apply to online platforms for brick-and-mortar businesses. Guillermo Robles, a California resident who is blind, filed a lawsuit against Domino’s in 2016 after he tried and failed on two occasions to order a custom pizza from the company’s website and mobile app. Domino’s is all about creating new technology to make ordering pizza more convenient for customers, from Slack apps to Facebook Messenger bots, but the chain is willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight a ruling requiring the company to make its website accessible to the blind.

Supreme court accessibility screen reader