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Farmhouse Pottery class action overview:
- Who: Lamar Brown filed a class action lawsuit against Farmhouse Pottery.
- Why: Brown claims that Farmhousepottery.com is not accessible to visually impaired and legally blind individuals.
- Where: The Farmhouse Pottery class action was filed in federal court in New York but the plaintiff intends it to apply across the United States.
Farmhouse Pottery has failed to make its website available to customers who are visually impaired or legally blind, according to a class action lawsuit.
The Farmhouse Pottery class action was filed in United States District Court in the Southern District of New York stating that visually impaired and legally blind customers cannot properly access the website, a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Plaintiff Lamar Brown claims that he attempted to purchase a bowl on the website but was unable to make the purchase because a variety of factors including inaccurate heading hierarchy, inadequate focus order, ambiguous link texts, inaccessible contact information, changing of content without advance warning, the lack of navigation links, inaccessible drop-down menus, inaccurate alt-text on graphics, the lack of adequate labeling of form fields, empty links that contain no text and the requirement that transactions be performed solely with a mouse.
“By failing to make the website accessible to blind persons, Defendant is violating basic equal access requirements under both state and federal law,” the Farmhouse Pottery class action claims.
The Farmhouse Pottery website does not follow readily available, well established standards of commerce required by the ADA and the New York State Human Rights Law, the Farmhouse Pottery class action alleges. Making the Farmhouse Pottery website accessible would not be an undue burden to the company, the lawsuit claims.
Plaintiff Brown is seeking injunctive relief as well as $500 per failed purchase and reasonable attorney’s fees for the Farmhouse Pottery class action lawsuit.
There are 8.1 million who are legally blind in U.S. who could have claim, according to lawsuit
The lawsuit claims there are 8.1 million people in the U.S. who are visually impaired, including 2.0 million who are blind and 400,000 visually impaired in the state of New York who can be included in the class action lawsuit regarding the Farmhouse Pottery website, citing the American Foundation for the Blind’s 2015 report.
Glamorise Foundations was also the subject of a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in New York claiming that its website is not fully available to those who are visually impaired and legally blind.
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