BRIAN FISCHLER v. SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO., d/b/a Strainge Beast

Filed August 4, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: BRIAN FISCHLER
Filing date: August 4, 2021
State of filing: New York

Defendant

Name: SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO., d/b/a Strainge Beast
Website: www.straingebeast.com
Industry: Food, Beverage & Tobacco
Summary: Strainge Beast produces and sells hard kombucha.

Case Summary

On August 4, 2021, BRIAN FISCHLER filed a complaint in New York against SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO., d/b/a Strainge Beast. Plaintiff BRIAN FISCHLER alleges that www.straingebeast.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Strainge Beast is headquartered in

1075 E 20th St, Chico, CA 95928, USA.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on August 16, 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.