Plaintiff
- Name: WALTER MITCHELL
- Filing date: October 26, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: A.T. CROSS COMPANY, LLC
- Website: www.cross.com
- Industry: Consumer Discretionary
- Summary: An American manufacturing company of writing implements, based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Case Summary
On October 26, 2021, WALTER MITCHELL filed a complaint in California against A.T. CROSS COMPANY, LLC. Plaintiff WALTER MITCHELL alleges that www.cross.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
A.T. Cross Company, was founded in
1846
and is headquartered in
Unit 14 Windmill Trading Estate, Thistle Rd, Luton LU1 3XJ, UK. It is estimated to have 105 employees and $158,300,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it's website cross.com is ranked 51,742 in the United States and 185,717 worldwide.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on October 28, 2021 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.
