Plaintiff
- Name: MEGHAN DOWNING
- Filing date: August 11, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: GNC HOLDINGS, LLC
- Website: www.gnc.com
- Industry: Retailing
- Summary: GNC Holdings, Inc. specializes in health and nutrition related products.
Case Summary
On August 11, 2021, MEGHAN DOWNING filed a complaint in California against GNC HOLDINGS, LLC. Plaintiff MEGHAN DOWNING alleges that www.gnc.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
GNC was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in
300 6th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2514, US.
It is estimated to have 16,800 employees and $2,540,000,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website gnc.com is ranked 2,685 in the United States and 15,412 worldwide.
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.
