Class action
A lawsuit brought by one or more people on behalf of a larger group who met the same barrier.
A class action is a lawsuit in which a few named plaintiffs sue on behalf of everyone in the same position, such as everyone using a screen reader who could not use a company’s website. A website accessibility suit can be filed this way, which raises what is at stake for the defendant.
Whether a suit is individual or a class action, what a court or opposing lawyer asks for is the same: evidence of what the organization knew, what it did, and when. An independent evaluation, a remediation record, and a published accessibility statement are the documents that answer those questions. We keep a record of U.S. cases at Accessibility lawsuits.
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