LUIS LICEA v. TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.

/ Biotechnology & Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals / By

Plaintiff

  • Name: LUIS LICEA
  • Filing date: August 26, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
  • Website: www.tactilemedical.com
  • Industry: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
  • Summary: Tactile Medical develops and markets at-home therapy devices that treat lymphedema and chronic venous insufficiency.

Case Summary

On August 26, 2021, LUIS LICEA filed a complaint in California against TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, INC.. Plaintiff LUIS LICEA alleges that www.tactilemedical.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Tactile Medical develops and markets at-home therapy devices that treat lymphedema and chronic venous insufficiency.

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.