Plaintiff
- Name: ARTURO STEVEZ
- Filing date: July 21, 2021
- State of filing: New York
Defendant
- Name: ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE
- Website: www.sjcny.edu
- Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
- Summary: St. Joseph’s College is a private university in New York State, with campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn, and in Patchogue, Long Island.
Case Summary
On July 21, 2021, ARTURO STEVEZ filed a complaint in New York against ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE. Plaintiff ARTURO STEVEZ alleges that www.sjcny.edu is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
St. Joseph’s College was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in
245 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA.
It is in the Education Services industry and the website is sjcny.edu.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 05, 2021 and ‘AudioEye’ 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.
