MEGHAN DOWNING v. INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS CORPORATION d/b/a Hotel Indigo

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Plaintiff

  • Name: MEGHAN DOWNING
  • Filing date: July 22, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS CORPORATION d/b/a Hotel Indigo
  • Website: www.hotelindigo.com
  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Summary: Hotel indigo Stratford upon Avon is a boutique hotel full of history and grandeur, located in the heart of Stratford upon Avon.

Case Summary

On July 22, 2021, MEGHAN DOWNING filed a complaint in California against INTER-CONTINENTAL HOTELS CORPORATION d/b/a Hotel Indigo. Plaintiff MEGHAN DOWNING alleges that www.hotelindigo.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Hotel Indigo was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in

683 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

It is in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry and the website is hotelindigo.com.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 05, 2021 and ‘HikeOrders Accessibility Enabler’ 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.