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Megan D. Erasmus v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

by | Aug 9, 2021 | Health Care Equipment & Services

Plaintiff

  • Name: Megan D. Erasmus
  • Filing date: July 28, 2021
  • State of filing: California

Defendant

  • Name: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Website: www.cedars-sinai.org
  • Industry: Health Care Equipment & Services
  • Summary: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a nonprofit, tertiary, 886-bed hospital and multispecialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California.

Case Summary

On July 28, 2021, Megan D. Erasmus filed a complaint in California against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Plaintiff Megan D. Erasmus alleges that www.cedars-sinai.org is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Cedars-Sinai is headquartered in

8700 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048-1804, US.

It is in the Health Care Providers & Services industry and the website is cedars-sinai.org.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 08, 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.