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Website Accessibility Lawsuits typically claim that a visually impaired individual (supposed customer or job applicant) was unable to access a company’s website with the aid of screen reader technology because the website in question did not meet certain coding or other standards. Over the past few years, creative plaintiff’s firms representing visually impaired persons have filed a nationwide - primarily in California, New York, and Florida - surge of tens of thousands of similar “Website Accessibility Lawsuits” and/or demand letters targeting any category of business, no matter the size or industry.

Domino’s petition for certiorari was the first time the Supreme Court had been asked to consider the issue of website accessibility. In its prior decision, the Ninth Circuit (i) upheld the District Court’s decision finding that ADA did apply to websites but (ii) reversed the District’s Court’s dismissal of claims against Domino’s, which had been based on the absence of regulatory standards for website accessibility under the ADA.

On Monday, October 7, 2019, the US Supreme Court denied the Domino’s Pizza’s request to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision holding that Domino’s must make its website accessible to persons with visual impairments under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Supreme court accessibility screen reader