Plaintiff
- Name: Arantza Espinoza
- Filing date: April 15, 2019
- State of filing: Florida
Defendant
- Name: Lion Capital LLP
- Website: www.us.allsaints.com
- Industry: Apparel
- Summary: Lion Capital, which specializes in making investments in the consumer sector, owns All Saints, a fashion chain.
Case Summary
On April 15, 2019, Arantza Espinoza filed a Complaint in Florida Federal court against Lion Capital LLP. Plaintiff Arantza Espinoza alleges that www.us.allsaints.com is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1 accessibility standard(s).
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Individuals using assistive technology cannot navigate the site at all to purchase any items
- Keyboard trap due to poor designed scripts, focus can be moved to a component of the page using a keyboard interface, but then focus cannot be moved away from that component using only a keyboard interface
- Defendant’s website does not contain accessibility assistance that would direct a visually impaired person like the Plaintiff to someone who he can contact for assistance, questions, or concerns
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
- VIOLATION OF THE ADA
- TRESPASS
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- A declaration that Defendant’s website is in violation of the ADA
- An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to update its website, and continue to monitor and update its website on an ongoing basis, to remove barriers in order that individuals with visual disabilities can access, and continue to access, the website and effectively communicate with the website to the full extent required by Title III of the ADA
- An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to clearly display the universal disabled logo within its website, wherein the logo [1] would lead to a page which would state Defendant’s accessibility information, facts, policies, and
accommodations. Such a clear display of the disabled logo is to ensure that individuals who are disabled are aware of the availability of the accessible features of the website - An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to provide ongoing support for web accessibility by implementing a website accessibility coordinator, a website application accessibility policy, and providing for website accessibility feedback to insure compliance thereto
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain to evaluate its policies, practices and procedures toward persons with disabilities, for such reasonable time to allow Defendant to undertake and complete corrective procedures to its website
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to establish a policy of web accessibility and accessibility features for its website to insure effective communication for individuals who are visually disabled
- An Order requiring, by a date certain, that any third-party vendors who participate on Defendant’s website to be fully accessible to the visually disabled
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once yearly thereafter, to provide mandatory web accessibility training to all employees who write or develop programs or code for, or who publish final content to, Defendant’s website on how to conform all web content and services with ADA accessibility requirements and applicable accessibility guidelines
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once every three months thereafter, to conduct automated accessibility tests of its website to identify any instances where the website is no longer in conformance with the accessibility requirements of the ADA and any applicable accessibility guidelines, and further directing Defendant to send a copy of the twelve (12) quarterly reports to Plaintiff’s counsel for review
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to make publicly available and directly link from its website homepage, a statement of Defendant’s Accessibility Policy to ensure the persons with disabilities have full and equal enjoyment of its website and shall accompany the public policy statement with an accessible means of submitting accessibility questions and problems
- An award to Plaintiff of her reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and expenses
- Such further relief as the Court deems just and equitable