Chris Langer v. MH Sub I, LLC

Filed July 26, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: Chris Langer
Filing date: July 26, 2021
State of filing: California

Defendant

Name: MH Sub I, LLC
Website: www.carsdirect.com
Industry: Automobiles & Components
Summary: CarsDirect offers insights and analysis on new car pricing trends and the latest auto news.

Case Summary

On July 26, 2021, Chris Langer filed a complaint in California against MH Sub I, LLC. Plaintiff Chris Langer alleges that www.carsdirect.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

CarsDirect was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in

909 N Sepulveda Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA.

It is in the Automotive industry and the website is carsdirect.com.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on August 08, 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.