Plaintiff
- Name: LUIS LICEA
- Filing date: August 11, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: DEALNEWS.COM, INC.
- Website: www.dealnews.com
- Industry: Software & Services
- Summary: Dealnews.com promotes deals and coupons from across the web.
Case Summary
On August 11, 2021, LUIS LICEA filed a complaint in California against DEALNEWS.COM, INC.. Plaintiff LUIS LICEA alleges that www.dealnews.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
DealNews was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in
101 Quality NW Cir, Huntsville, AL 35806-4533, US.
It is in the Internet Software & Services industry and the website is dealnews.com.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 21, 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.
