Plaintiff
- Name: LUIS LICEA
- Filing date: August 24, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: UNITIL CORPORATION
- Website: www.unitil.com
- Industry: Energy Equipment & Services
- Summary: Unitil delivers natural gas and electricity to areas of ME, MA and NH.
Case Summary
On August 24, 2021, LUIS LICEA filed a complaint in California against UNITIL CORPORATION. Plaintiff LUIS LICEA alleges that www.unitil.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Unitil was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in
6 Liberty Ln W, Hampton, NH 03842, USA.
It is estimated to have 480 employees and $366,900,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website unitil.com is ranked 77,145 in the United States and 377,725 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.
