WALTER MITCHELL v. SPARK HOLDCO, LLC

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Plaintiff

  • Name: WALTER MITCHELL
  • Filing date: August 18, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: SPARK HOLDCO, LLC
  • Website: www.ir.sparkenergy.com
  • Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
  • Summary: Spark Energy is a US retail electricity and natural gas supplier in deregulated energy markets within the US.

Case Summary

On August 18, 2021, WALTER MITCHELL filed a complaint in California against SPARK HOLDCO, LLC. Plaintiff WALTER MITCHELL alleges that www.ir.sparkenergy.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Spark Energy was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in

2105 Citywest Blvd, Houston, TX 77042-2836, US.

It is estimated to have 420 employees and $813,725,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website sparkenergy.com is ranked 87,811 in the United States and 249,976 worldwide.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 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.