Plaintiff
- Name: BRITTNEY MEJICO
- Filing date: July 20, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: THYSSENKRUPP ONLINEMETALS, LLC
- Website: www.onlinemetals.com
- Industry: Materials
- Summary: Selling metal online.
Case Summary
On July 20, 2021, BRITTNEY MEJICO filed a complaint in California against THYSSENKRUPP ONLINEMETALS, LLC. Plaintiff BRITTNEY MEJICO alleges that www.onlinemetals.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Online Metals was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in
1138 W Ewing St, Seattle, WA 98119, USA.
It is in the Metals & Mining industry and the website is onlinemetals.com.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 05, 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.