You may have heard about recent ADA lawsuits targeting large companies such as Domino’s (Robles v. Domino’s Pizza), Five Guys (Lucia Markett v. Five Guys), Hobby Lobby (Sean Gorecki v. Hobby Lobby), Winn-Dixie (Gil vs. Winn-Dixie) where the grocery store chain had to pay $105K to settle the lawsuit, and most notably National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation where Target spent millions in legal fees over 12 years and eventually still had to pay 6 million in damages to the plaintiff.

These companies weren't accused of failing to build a wheelchair ramp or install handrails in the restrooms — common allegations in ADA lawsuits in years past — but simply that their websites couldn’t be used by people with certain disabilities.

Each of those cases involved visually impaired people trying to access the company's website, and the lawsuits were all filed in FEDERAL court under ADA Title III – the “public access” section of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We are not attorneys, so to better understand the scope of this risk to our clients I have had extensive discussions with lawyers, industry experts, consultants and companies that specialize in ensuring websites are fully ADA compliant.

In addition to the large companies that have had issues with this, recently a small shoe store in Clearwater, FL was involved in a website accessibility lawsuit. They are a “mom & pop" shop – as are many of our clients – so this one really hit home for us. A small business that did everything they could to survive the last few years and now hoping to expand their business again, only to get hit with a website accessibility lawsuit that could cost them $10-$20k to resolve.

In another case, the Avanti Hotel in Palm Springs got hit with a lawsuit where the plaintiff sought $13k in damages and for the hotel to be ordered to make the required changes to their website. The hotel's attorney said that it would likely cost upwards of $25k in damages and work to the website, PLUS potentially tens of thousands in attorney fees if they chose to fight the lawsuit and lost.

In 2022 there were over 3,200 federal cases filed regarding ADA website accessibility, an increase of over 400% in the last five years. As the trend indicates, this is now a very serious problem that businesses of all sizes must address before they fall victim to one of these potentially catastrophic lawsuits.

We have partnered with the top AI & ADA Accessibility experts in the industry to bring our clients an on-screen tool that provides a fully compliant solution to their existing website without a total re-work. It's literally one line of code. And best of all, we're able to provide this for a very small monthly subscription fee, which all things considered is a tiny price to pay to get the peace of mind of becoming instantly compliant, avoid a lawsuit like the ones detailed above, and most importantly warn off any would-be scam attorneys from targeting you. Once they see our tool automatically providing comprehensive ADA accessibility on your website, they will move along to the next unsuspecting business owner who unfortunately hasn't taken this step to protect themselves.

To demonstrate the functionality and ease-of-use of this solution, we’d like to offer you a free 30-day trial to demonstrate how well it will work on your website. There is no signup required and no strings attached – we’ll provide you one simple line of code with instructions on how to add it to your website so that our accessibility tool will display every page.  We can even help you install it if you’d like.  If after trying it out for a week you decide you don’t want it, simply delete the code from your site and the tool will disappear. If you decide to keep it, we’ll set you up with a simple no-contract monthly subscription that provides full accessibility to your users while protecting your business from devastating lawsuits like those mentioned above.

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