THUY THANH ALONZO v. COST PLUS WORLD MARKET LLC.

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Plaintiff

  • Name: THUY THANH ALONZO
  • Filing date: August 5, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: COST PLUS WORLD MARKET LLC.
  • Website: www.worldmarket.com
  • Industry: Retailing
  • Summary: Cost Plus World Market sells furniture, home decor, imported rugs, curtains, gifts, food, wine and more.

Case Summary

On August 5, 2021, THUY THANH ALONZO filed a complaint in California against COST PLUS WORLD MARKET LLC.. Plaintiff THUY THANH ALONZO alleges that www.worldmarket.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Cost Plus World Market was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in

Oakland, CA 94607, USA.

It is estimated to have 3,500 employees and $963,830,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website worldmarket.com is ranked 2,204 in the United States and 11,411 worldwide.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 16, 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.