Plaintiff
- Name: ARTURO STEVEZ
- Filing date: August 11, 2021
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
- Website: www.fairfield.edu
- Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
- Summary: Fairfield University is a private, Catholic university in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Case Summary
On August 11, 2021, ARTURO STEVEZ filed a complaint in New York against FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY. Plaintiff ARTURO STEVEZ alleges that www.fairfield.edu is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Fairfield University was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in
Fairfield, CT, USA.
It is in the Education Services industry and the website is fairfield.edu.
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.
