ARTURO STEVEZ v. GOODWIN UNIVERSITY, INC.

Filed August 11, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: ARTURO STEVEZ
Filing date: August 11, 2021
State of filing: New York

Defendant

Name: GOODWIN UNIVERSITY, INC.
Website: www.goodwin.edu
Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
Summary: Goodwin University is a private university in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Case Summary

On August 11, 2021, ARTURO STEVEZ filed a complaint in New York against GOODWIN UNIVERSITY, INC.. Plaintiff ARTURO STEVEZ alleges that www.goodwin.edu is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Goodwin University was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in

1 Riverside Dr, East Hartford, CT 06118, USA.

It is in the Education Services industry and the website is goodwin.edu.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on August 21, 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.