Plaintiff
- Name: Valentin Reid
- Filing date: June 14, 2019
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: Hom Furniture, Inc.
- Website: www.homfurniture.com
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Summary: Hom Furniture, Inc. manufactures and sells a wide array of furniture, rugs, decor, and accessories at brick and mortar retail stores and via its website.
Case Summary
On June 14, 2019, Valentin Reid filed a Complaint in New York Federal court against Hom Furniture, Inc.. Plaintiff Valentin Reid alleges that www.homfurniture.com is not accessible.
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
- Lack of Alternative Text (“alt-text”), or a text equivalent.
- Empty Links That Contain No Text causing the function or purpose of the link to not be presented to the user.
- Redundant Links where adjacent links go to the same URL address which results in additional navigation and repetition for keyboard and screen-reader users; and
- Linked Images Missing Alt-text, which causes problems if an image within a link contains no text and that image does not provide alt-text.
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
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
- New York State Civil Rights Law
- Declaratory Relief