WALTER MITCHELL v. A.T. CROSS COMPANY, LLC

/ Household & Personal Products / By

Plaintiff

  • Name: WALTER MITCHELL
  • Filing date: October 26, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: A.T. CROSS COMPANY, LLC
  • Website: www.cross.com
  • Industry: Household & Personal Products
  • Summary: An American manufacturing company of writing implements, based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Case Summary

On October 26, 2021, WALTER MITCHELL filed a complaint in California against A.T. CROSS COMPANY, LLC. Plaintiff WALTER MITCHELL alleges that www.cross.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

A.T. Cross Company, was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in

Unit 14 Windmill Trading Estate, Thistle Rd, Luton LU1 3XJ, UK.

It is estimated to have 105 employees and $158,300,000 in annual revenue. According to Alexa, it’s website cross.com is ranked 51,742 in the United States and 185,717 worldwide.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on October 28, 2021 and ‘Accessibe’ 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.