EVELINA CALCANO v. REASON BRAND, INC.

/ Apparel, Consumer Durables / By

Plaintiff

  • Name: EVELINA CALCANO
  • Filing date: August 24, 2021
  • State of filing: New York

Defendant

  • Name: REASON BRAND, INC.
  • Website: www.reasonclothing.com
  • Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
  • Summary: Reason Clothing is a mens and womenswear line producing New York City based clothing.

Case Summary

On August 24, 2021, EVELINA CALCANO filed a complaint in New York against REASON BRAND, INC.. Plaintiff EVELINA CALCANO alleges that www.reasonclothing.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Reason Clothing is a mens and womenswear line producing New York City based clothing.

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.