Plaintiff
- Name: BRIAN FISCHLER
- Filing date: February 21, 2019
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: EMMIS OPERATING COMPANY
- Website: www.hot97.com/summerjam
- Industry: Entertainment
- Summary: Emmis Operating Company does business as Hot 97, operating a radio station and concert promotion company. Their premier concert is the annual Summer Jam in New York.
Case Summary
On February 21, 2019, BRIAN FISCHLER filed a Complaint in New York Federal court against EMMIS OPERATING COMPANY. Plaintiff BRIAN FISCHLER alleges that www.hot97.com/summerjam is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0 accessibility standard(s).
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Lack of alt-text for images. Many images are labeled only with file names.
- Document titles are blank.
- Links use general text like “click here” with no surrounding text
explaining the link’s purpose. - Several links on a page share the same link text but go to different destinations.
- Frames do not have a title.
- Button elements are empty.
- Headings are not nested correctly.
- Webpages have markup errors.
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
- Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq.
- New York State Human Rights Law
- New York City Human Rights Law
- Declaratory Relief
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq.
- New York State Human Rights Law
- New York City Human Rights Law
- Declaratory Relief