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Domino’s Pizza Takes on The ADA

Recently a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) against Domino's Pizza LLC dealt a major blow to companies that refuse to follow the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements for websites. ADA website compliance has been a growing issue for the past few years. Title III of the ADA lays out specific guidelines for websites in the public space to follow and ensure that they are accessible for all potential customers. We have written extensively in our blog before about ADA compliance, you can read those posts here in the archive. This case was the first time that SCOTUS weighed in (PDF) on an ADA lawsuit. A man named Guillermo Robles had sued Domino's Pizza because he was not able to complete an order online with his screen reader software for visual impairment. Eventually his lawsuit was heard by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who ruled that Domino's did have to fix their...

Domino’s Pizza & the ADA 2020

by John ParrishNo Comments

Recently a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) against Domino's Pizza LLC dealt a major blow to companies that refuse to follow the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements for websites. ADA website compliance has been a growing issue for the past few years. Title III of the ADA lays out specific guidelines for websites in the public space to follow and ensure that they are accessible for all potential customers. We have written extensively in our blog before about ADA compliance, you can read those posts here in the archive. This case was the first time that SCOTUS weighed in on a Disabilities Act lawsuit. A man named Guillermo Robles had sued Domino's Pizza because he was not able to complete an order online with his screen reader software for visual impairment. Eventually his lawsuit was heard by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who ruled that Domino's did have to fix their...

ADA Website Compliance in 2020 and SEO

by John ParrishNo Comments

ADA Website compliance had some very important moments in 2019. The results of the Domino's case in the Supreme Court was one of those moments. This ruling reinforced the fact that ADA Website compliance in 2020 is here to stay. Some of the main reasons to always make sure your website design is complete with ADA compliance has always been for SEO purposes. Major search engines (Google especially) have always adhered to many of the same requirements that ADA compliance did too, alt text on images is a big one. So it made sense to be in compliance with the ADA to make sure that your site didn't suffer the wrath of the algorithms. However, now that this court case has been settled and there is a precedent for businesses to lose in Federal court at the highest possible place, there is more of a liability reason to ensure compliance than ever before. Previously many sites wouldn't be targets for...