Chris Langer v. Laugh Factory New Media, LLC

    Plaintiff

    • Name: Chris Langer
    • Filing date: August 18, 2021
    • State of filing: California

    Defendant

    • Name: Laugh Factory New Media, LLC
    • Website: www.laughfactory.com
    • Industry: Consumer Services
    • Summary: Laugh Factory is a chain of comedy clubs in the United States.

    Case Summary

    On August 18, 2021, Chris Langer filed a complaint in California against Laugh Factory New Media, LLC. Plaintiff Chris Langer alleges that www.laughfactory.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

    Company Summary

    Laugh Factory was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in
    8001 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA.
    It is in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry and the website is laughfactory.com.

    Accessibility Overlays

    A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 2021 and 'UserWay' 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.

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