Plaintiff
- Name: Refugio Rodriguez
- Filing date: February 13, 2019
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: Big 5 Corp.
- Website: www.big5sportinggoods.com/store/
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Summary: Big 5 Corporation sells sporting goods, athletic apparel, shoes, and other accessories at brick and mortar retail stores and via its website.
Case Summary
On February 13, 2019, Refugio Rodriguez filed a Complaint in California State court against Big 5 Corp.. Plaintiff Refugio Rodriguez alleges that www.big5sportinggoods.com/store/ is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0 accessibility standard(s).
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Missing Alternative Text, or a text equivalent.
- Missing Audio Description or Media Alternative.
- Content is not presented in a meaningful sequence.
- Pause, Stop, Hide feature missing.
- No mechanism is available to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple pages of web content.
- Lack of Focus Order.
- Lack of Link Purpose.
- Lack of Error Identification.
- Resize Text feature does not provide zoom functionality causing text to run off the visible page.
- Website does not use images of text.
- Focus is not visible.
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
Unruh Civil Rights Act, California Civil Code § 51 et seq.
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- A preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining Defendant from violating the UCRA, Cal. Civ. Code $ 51, et seq.;
- A preliminary and permanent injunction requiring Defendant to take the steps necessary to make website readily
accessible to and usable by visually-impaired individuals, but Plaintiffhereby expressly limits the injunctive relief to require that Defendant expend no sum that is greater than $ 50,000; - Minimum damages of $4,000 per violation pursuant to section 52(a) of the California Civil Code;
- Reasonable attorneys' fees and costs (including expert fees) and other expenses of suit; and
- Such other and further relief as it deems necessary, just, proper, and appropriate.