Plaintiff
- Name: VICTOR ARIZA
- Filing date: March 16, 2022
- State of filing: Florida
Defendant
- Name: BOARDRIDERS RETAIL, INC.
- Website: www.billabong.com
- Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
- Summary: Billabong International Limited is an Australian company focused on surfing, primarily a clothing retailer that also produces accessories.
Case Summary
On March 16, 2022, VICTOR ARIZA filed a complaint in Florida against BOARDRIDERS RETAIL, INC.. Plaintiff VICTOR ARIZA alleges that www.billabong.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Billabong was founded in
1973
and is headquartered in
1 Billabong Pl, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220, Australia. It is estimated to have 6,000 employees and $1,125,092,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it's website billabong.com is ranked 9,887 in the United States and 47,722 worldwide.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on March 18, 2022 and 'Accessibe' was detected. Typically overlays, or widgets, apply the third-party's source code to the existing code of the host website in an effort to change the user experience by overriding or adding to the existing code. Overlays are often added instead of manually identifying or resolving accessibility barriers in a website's code and design, which would generally occur during an audit or test from an accessibility subject matter expert. By not addressing the underlying cause of accessibility barriers, the effectiveness of overlays has been debated. There has also been an increase in the number of lawsuits against websites that use third-party overlays.
