DENETTE J. LIGON v. EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC. d/b/a Crate & Barrel

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Plaintiff

  • Name: DENETTE J. LIGON
  • Filing date: August 16, 2021
  • State of filing: New York

Defendant

  • Name: EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC. d/b/a Crate & Barrel
  • Website: www.crateandbarrel.com
  • Industry: Retailing
  • Summary: Crate and Barrel Holdings is an international home decor store headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

Case Summary

On August 16, 2021, DENETTE J. LIGON filed a complaint in New York against EUROMARKET DESIGNS, INC. d/b/a Crate & Barrel. Plaintiff DENETTE J. LIGON alleges that www.crateandbarrel.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Crate and Barrel was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in

1250 Techny Rd, Northbrook, IL 60062-5419, US.

It is estimated to have 7,500 employees and $1,600,000,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website crateandbarrel.com is ranked 613 in the United States and 3,162 worldwide.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 28, 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.