BRITTNEY MEJICO v. WARBY PARKER INC.

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Plaintiff

  • Name: BRITTNEY MEJICO
  • Filing date: July 23, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: WARBY PARKER INC.
  • Website: www.warbyparker.com
  • Industry: Retailing
  • Summary: Warby Parker is an American online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses, based in New York City.

Case Summary

On July 23, 2021, BRITTNEY MEJICO filed a complaint in California against WARBY PARKER INC.. Plaintiff BRITTNEY MEJICO alleges that www.warbyparker.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Eyeglass seller company.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 07, 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.