BRITTNEY MEJICO v. JMB GLAMSQUAD, LLC

Filed August 27, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: BRITTNEY MEJICO
Filing date: August 27, 2021
State of filing: California

Defendant

Name: JMB GLAMSQUAD, LLC
Website: www.glamsquad.com
Industry: Consumer Discretionary
Summary: Glamsquad is an in-home hair, makeup and nail service company featuring hair and makeup products.

Case Summary

On August 27, 2021, BRITTNEY MEJICO filed a complaint in California against JMB GLAMSQUAD, LLC. Plaintiff BRITTNEY MEJICO alleges that www.glamsquad.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Glamsquad is an in-home hair, makeup and nail service company featuring hair and makeup products.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 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.