Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites

Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called “accessibility” lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access law, lawyers say. For years, advocates for the disabled have fought to apply the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to e-commerce and mobile apps. Doing so would require small online retailers -- and other commercial websites -- to add captions and transcriptions of multimedia content on the site, provide spoken descriptions of photos, and offer options to navigate online pages without the using a mouse.