Plaintiff
- Name: Arantza Espinoza
- Filing date: June 21, 2019
- State of filing: Florida
Defendant
- Name: Intermix Holdco, Inc.
- Website: www.intermixonline.com
- Industry: Apparel
- Summary: Intermix Holdco, Inc., a subsidiary of Gap, Inc., operates the www.intermix.com website, selling designer apparel and accessories from a number of specialty boutiques.
Case Summary
On June 21, 2019, Arantza Espinoza filed a Complaint in Florida Federal court against Intermix Holdco, Inc.. Plaintiff Arantza Espinoza alleges that www.intermixonline.com is not accessible per the WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1 accessibility standard(s).
Case Details
Plaintiff alleges issues in its Complaint including the following:
Errors that prevent user to complete desired action
● All Required Input Fields’ are not providing automatically determined error message descriptions in text format.
● Required Input Fields are not labeled for screen readers due to improper configuration.
● Required Input Fields are not labeled as required for screen readers due to improper configuration.
● User interface components do not contain proper ARIA tags for the name and role to be
programmatically determined nor are they using html native form controls.
● Due to improper coding required product features’ functionality not accessible for keyboards.
Errors that make it difficult to navigate through the website
● Focus order of certain items does not preserve the operability.
● Certain visual presentation of text has a contrast ratio less than 4.5:1.
● Missing some mechanisms to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple web pages.
● User interface components do not contain proper ARIA tags for the name and role to be programmatically determined nor are they using html native form controls.
● Functional Image(s) found that alternative text is a duplicate of another link, therefore should be combined with adjacent link text, with no alt text to prevent instruction duplication.
● Due to improper coding certain functionality of navigation menu controls not accessible for keyboards.
● Due to improper coding certain functionality of page controls not accessible for keyboards.
Plaintiff asserts the following cause(s) of action in its Complaint:
- Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12181 et seq.
- Trespass
Plaintiff seeks the following relief by way of its Complaint:
- A declaration that Defendant’s website is in violation of the ADA;
- An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to update its website, and continue to monitor and update its website on an ongoing basis, to remove barriers in order that individuals with visual disabilities can access, and continue to access, the website and effectively communicate with the website to the full extent required by Title III of the ADA;
- An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to clearly display the universal disabled logo within its website, wherein the logo [1] would lead to a page which would state Defendant’s accessibility information, facts, policies, and accommodations. Such a clear display of the disabled logo is to ensure that individuals who are disabled are aware of the availability of the accessible features of the website;
- An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to provide ongoing support for web accessibility by implementing a website accessibility coordinator, a website application
accessibility policy, and providing for website accessibility feedback to insure compliance thereto. - An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain to evaluate its policies, practices and procedures toward persons with disabilities, for such reasonable time to allow Defendant to undertake and complete corrective procedures to its website;
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to establish a policy of web accessibility and accessibility features for its website to insure effective communication for individuals who are visually disabled;
- An Order requiring, by a date certain, that any third-party vendors who participate on Defendant’s website to be fully accessible to the visually disabled;
- An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once yearly thereafter, to provide mandatory web accessibility training to all employees who write or develop programs
or code for, or who publish final content to, Defendant’s website on how to conform all web content and services with ADA accessibility requirements and applicable accessibility
guidelines; - An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once every three months thereafter, to conduct automated accessibility tests of its website to identify any instances
where the website is no longer in conformance with the accessibility requirements of the ADA and any applicable accessibility guidelines, and further directing Defendant to send a copy of the twelve (12) quarterly reports to Plaintiff’s counsel for review. - An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to make publicly available and directly link from its website homepage, a statement of Defendant’s Accessibility Policy to ensure the persons with disabilities have full and equal enjoyment of its website and shall accompany the public policy statement with an accessible means of submitting accessibility questions and problems.
- An award to Plaintiff of her reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and expenses; and
- Such other and further relief as the Court deems just and equitable.
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