Funimation is being sued by Jenisa Angeles for the website not being accessible for the blind. Disabilities Act you must make your business accessible for the blind. This is why there handicap spaces and ramps everywhere as it is under law. Well according to Jenisa who is blind Funimation failed to make sure there website can be used by the blind community.
“The lawsuit states that Angeles is “a visually-impaired and legally blind person, who cannot use a computer without the assistance of screen-reading software,” and is proficient at using the “NonVisual Desktop Access” screen-reading software. Angeles reportedly visited the “shop.funimation.com” website on multiple occasions (including in January) to make a purchase, but was “denied a shopping experience similar to that of a sighted individual due to the website’s lack of a variety of features and accommodations, which effectively barred [her] from being able to determine what specific products were offered for sale.”
Specifically, the lawsuit claims that features on the site lacked alt. text and failed to “Add a label element or title attribute for each field.” Additionally, the lawsuit stated pages on the site contained the same title elements and the site contained broken links. The lawsuit states that Funimation has therefore “engaged in acts of intentional discrimination.”
This is what the ADA says
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rding to supplementary information on Title III Regulations of the ADA:
Although the language of the ADA does not explicitly mention the Internet, the Department [of Justice] has taken the position that title III covers access to Web sites of public accommodations. The Department has issued guidance on the ADA as applied to the Web sites of public entities, which includes the availability of standards for Web site accessibility.
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an agency (and similarly a public accommodation) with an inaccessible Web site also may meet its legal obligations by providing an accessible alternative for individuals to enjoy its goods or services, such as a staffed telephone information line. However, such an alternative must provide an equal degree of access in terms of hours of operation and range of options and programs available.
The lawsuit alleges that Funimation is a “public accommodation” in accordance with another section of Title III of the ADA, which states:
No individual shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation.”
At this moment Funimation has not responded to this but if and when they do I will let you know.
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