procurement
Anatomy of an accessibility-aware RFP: real procurement language teardown
Five anonymised RFP accessibility sections, clause by clause — federal, US state, EU member-state, Fortune 500, and the typical boilerplate.
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ada
Accessibility class actions in 2026: certification trends and outcomes
Fifteen years after Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes redrew the Rule 23 map, the accessibility class action is neither dead nor dominant — it is a slowly recovering instrument whose 2026 viability depends on the Ninth Circuit's Robles framework, the Second Circuit's Andrews v.
accessibility-statements
The accessibility statement audit: are the world's top-100 sites honest?
We read the accessibility statements of the Tranco top-100 most-visited sites in 2026, scored each on existence, WCAG citation, known-limitations disclosure, feedback SLA, and tested conformance — and measured the gap between what those statements claim and what an axe-core scan actually returns.
ada
ADA filings move to state court: Unruh, NYCHRL, and the post-Acheson migration
The Supreme Court's 2023 Acheson Hotels disposition, the New York CPLR §3211 procedural reforms, and California's §425.55 high-frequency-litigant gate have measurably moved ADA-style accessibility filings off the federal docket and into state court.
ada
ADA website compliance — Title III web accessibility guide
ADA compliance for websites — Title III, the DOJ Title II 2024 rule, current litigation volume and WCAG 2.1 AA as the federal standard. A current-data guide to ADA website compliance for 2026.
ats
Applicant tracking systems are an accessibility crisis: an audit of the top 10 ATS platforms
We ran an axe-based automated audit plus a manual keyboard and screen-reader review across the candidate-facing flows of the ten most-used applicant tracking systems — Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle Taleo, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR, Workable, JazzHR, and SmartRecruiters.
captioning
The captioning lawsuit cluster: streaming, university, and live-event suits 2023-2026
Three years of captioning litigation — streaming, university, live-event — have moved the legal centre of gravity from caption existence to caption quality.
civic-tech
Civic tech and digital benefits: how unemployment portals fail disabled claimants
An audit of unemployment, SNAP, Medicaid, and SSDI portals in the ten largest US states + Login.gov and SSA.gov against WCAG 2.1 AA and the April 2024 DOJ Title II final rule.
disasters
Disability inclusion in disaster preparedness: the Sendai mid-point, the 2024-26 evidence, and what 'leave no one behind' looks like operationally
Eleven years into the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, disability inclusion remains the most-cited and least-implemented commitment. The Türkiye-Syria earthquake, Pacific cyclone seasons, and Ukraine displacement data show where the gap still bites.
women
Disabled women's healthcare access in 2026: the intersection CEDAW and the CRPD finally started to enforce together
Disabled women face compounded physical-access, communication-access, and attitudinal barriers in every healthcare setting. The 2025 joint CEDAW–CRPD Committee recommendation and 2024-26 national reform data show where the floor is finally rising.
doj
DOJ-led ADA enforcement actions: what triggers federal attention in 2026
The Department of Justice has filed fewer than 200 federal website-accessibility actions in a decade — against roughly 12,000 private Title III complaints in 2024 alone.
doj
The DOJ Title II rule turns 2: state and local government compliance reality check
Two years after the DOJ finalised 28 CFR Part 35 Subpart H, what state and local government web compliance actually looks like.
eaa
EAA Article 13: fine ranges by Member State, mid-2026
Article 13 of Directive (EU) 2019/882 left penalty levels to national legislatures.
eaa
EAA first year: enforcement, penalties, and the compliance-rate trajectory across the EU 27
Twelve months after the European Accessibility Act came into force across the EU on 28 June 2025, the first enforcement data is in. Penalties range from €5,000 in Estonia to €500,000 in Germany; scan-coverage between 30% and 70%; transposition still uneven.
eaa
EAA enforcement, year 2: penalty data from member-state market-surveillance authorities
Year 2 of EAA enforcement — 28 June 2026 to 28 June 2027 — produces the first comparable penalty data from named national market-surveillance authorities. BAFA, AEPD, ARCOM, AgID, Tarbijakaitseamet, Agentschap Telecom, and the newly stood-up Belgian AIBE are now publishing actions on the record.
eaa
EAA vs ADA: how the two penalty regimes differ in scope and reach
A head-to-head comparison of the European Accessibility Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act penalty regimes — Member-State administrative fines from €5,000 to €1 million versus US statutory civil penalties up to $114,189 per subsequent violation plus injunctive relief and attorneys'.
games
Game accessibility 2026: the post-CVAA video-game extension and where AAA studios stand
A decade after the FCC's 2013 video-game waiver expired and twelve years into the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act's reach over in-game communications, the AAA console business has been pulled — unevenly, sometimes reluctantly.
data
The state of global disability metrics in 2026: what gets counted, what doesn't, and why the gap keeps closing slowly
Two decades after the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning was published, only a minority of national censuses and household surveys actually use it. WHO's 2024 World Report on Disability update and the 2025 UN DESA Disability Statistics Compendium tell the 2026 numbers — and the gaps.
ada
The 25 largest ADA web-accessibility settlements 2020-2026
A ranked dossier of the twenty-five largest publicly-documented ADA Title III web-accessibility settlements between 2020 and 2026 — from Fashion Nova's $5.15 million class settlement at the top to mid-six-figure consent decrees at the floor — with aggregate analysis of industry concentration.
captions
Live-caption accuracy benchmark: Otter, Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, StreamText
We ran six live-captioning services through 60-minute mixed-accent test sessions and measured word-error rate, latency, name recall, and AT integration.
mobility
Mobility apps and disabled riders: an audit of Uber, Lyft, Bolt, FreeNow, and DiDi
Five major ride-hail apps audited on screen-reader behaviour, wheelchair-accessible-vehicle (WAV) supply, service-animal handling, and the regulatory follow-on from the 2021 DOJ-Uber settlement and the EAA's Article 4.
news-publishers
News publishers and accessibility: the worst-in-class digital sector
News publishers post the lowest accessibility pass rate of any consumer-facing digital sector. We audited ten major newsrooms — NYT, Post, WSJ, CNN, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, Bloomberg, Axios, Politico — across articles, video captions, paywalls, mobile apps, and archives.
patient-portals
Patient portals fail disabled patients: an audit of the top 8 US EHR-linked portals
Eight major US patient-portal brands — Epic MyChart, Oracle Health, Allscripts, athenahealth, NextGen, eClinicalWorks, Practice Fusion, Greenway — audited against WCAG 2.1 AA and the HHS Section 504 May 2024 final rule.
ada
Private right of action vs regulator enforcement: comparative outcomes
A side-by-side reconstruction of how digital-accessibility law is actually enforced in 2026 — roughly 12,000 private US filings under ADA Title III against a few hundred regulator-led actions in the EU, UK.
ada
The economics of serial plaintiffs: who, why, and what stops the cycle
A deep dive into the named plaintiffs, the firms behind them, and the fee economics — under §12205, Unruh §52, and CPLR §3211 — that make ADA Title III the most lawyer-driven civil-rights statute in the federal code.
ada
Serial plaintiffs versus individual plaintiffs: who actually drives ADA Title III enforcement in 2026
Roughly 12,000 ADA Title III lawsuits were filed in US federal court in 2024, the bulk concentrated in a handful of plaintiffs' firms. The 2025 procedural reforms in New York and California have started to reshape the pattern — but not, on the available data, in the way reformers expected.
education
The state of deaf-education access worldwide in 2026
Twenty years after the CRPD recognised the right of deaf children to learn in a sign language, the gap between treaty and classroom is still measured in millions. A 2026 state-of-play across six countries, three teaching models, and the policy mechanisms beginning to close it.
overlays
Is this the end of overlay vendors? Tracking the 2024-2026 retreat
From the 2022 peak to the 2026 trough, the accessibility-overlay industry has been contracting on every measurable axis: settlement counts, revenue, headcount, partner channels, and regulatory legitimacy. A dossier of the named vendors and the metrics behind their retreat.
ada
Which firms file 60% of ADA cases? The 2026 firm-by-firm field guide
Ten plaintiff-side firms file the majority of federal ADA Title III cases. We catalogue each of them — lead attorneys, annual filing volume, geographic concentration, notable rulings, and which state's 2024 procedural reform now targets them.
crpd
Twenty years of the UN CRPD: where ratification has translated to enforcement — and where it hasn't
Two decades after the UN CRPD entered into force, 191 states are parties — but the Committee's individual-communications docket, the gap between Article 33 focal points and budget lines, and the patchwork of Optional Protocol uptake tell an uneven 2026 story.
wcag
WCAG 2.2 adoption rate: where the recommendation has and hasn't entered law, procurement, and audit practice — a 2026 survey
Two-and-a-half years after the W3C published WCAG 2.2, only a fraction of legal references that previously cited 2.0 or 2.1 have updated. The 9 new SCs are where the gap shows — focus appearance, target size, dragging, redundant entry, accessible auth.