SIERRA v. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

• Video content with no closed captioning;
• Video content with captioning that was incomplete, inaccurate or nonsensical; and
• Video content with captioning that contains inaccurate or missing punctuation.
• The Website also lacks prompting information and accommodations necessary to allow hearing disabled individuals who use closed captioning and IP Relay to locate and accurately interpret the information provided online to purchase Defendant’s merchandise from the Website.

42 USC 12182 Americans with Disabilities Act

• A declaration that the Website and Defendant’s practices and omissions associated therewith are in violation of the ADA;
• An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to effectively update the Website, and continue to monitor and update the Website (on an ongoing basis), to remove barriers and add proper and effective closed captioning on all video content on its Website and include alternative ways to access images or visual information (e.g., graphs, charts, animations, or URLs on slides), such as JAGUAR description, alternative text, PDF files, or Word documents, in order for individuals with hearing and other visual disabilities to be able to access, and continue to access, the Website and effectively communicate with the Website to the full extent required by Title III of the ADA;
• An Order requiring Defendant to develop and implement procedures to ensure that their online content conforms to the generally accepted accessibility technical standards, (to the extent necessary) so that individuals with vision, hearing and manual disabilities can acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as individuals without disabilities with substantially equivalent ease of use
• An Order requiring Defendant to develop and implement procedures to ensure that Defendant’s content on the Website or YouTube channel or videos conforms to the to the generally accepted accessibility technical standards, to the extent necessary so that individuals with vision, hearing, and manual disabilities can acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as individuals without disabilities with substantially equivalent ease of use.
• An Order requiring Defendant to develop and implement procedures to ensure that the website content on the Website, iTunes, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Tiktok, or YouTube platform conforms to generally accepted accessibility technical standards (to the extent necessary) so that individuals with vision, hearing, and manual disabilities can acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as individuals without disabilities with substantially equivalent ease of use.
• An Order requiring Defendant to develop effective mechanisms and implement effective procedures for Defendant to solicit, receive and respond to feedback regarding any barriers to access to the online content on their Website, iTunes, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Tiktok, or YouTube channels or platform, as well as feedback on how to improve the accessibility of that content.
• An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to clearly display the universal disabled logo within the Website, wherein the logo, similar to one as depicted here would lead to a page which would state Defendant’s accessibility information, provide a IP Relay Service contact information and other relevant facts, policies, and accommodations. Such a clear display of the disabled logo is to ensure that individuals who are disabled are aware of the availability of the accessible features of the Website;
• An Order requiring Defendant, by a date certain, to provide ongoing support for web accessibility by implementing a proper and effective website accessibility coordinator, a website application accessibility policy, and providing for website accessibility feedback to ensure compliance thereto;
• An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to evaluate its policies, practices and procedures toward persons with disabilities, for such reasonable time to allow Defendant to undertake and complete corrective procedures to its Website, policies, practices and procedures;
• An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to establish a proper and effective policy of web accessibility and accessibility features for the Website to ensure effective communication for individuals who are hearing disabled and provide an IP Relay Service contact information;
• An Order requiring, by a date certain, that any third-party vendors who participate on Defendant’s Website to be fully accessible to the hearing and visually disabled;
• An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once yearly thereafter, to provide mandatory web accessibility training to all employees who write or develop programs or code for, or who publish final content to, the Website on how to conform all web content and services with ADA accessibility requirements and applicable accessibility guidelines;
• An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain and at least once every three months thereafter, to conduct proper and effective automated accessibility tests of the Website to identify any instances where the Website is no longer in conformance with the accessibility requirements of the ADA and any applicable accessibility guidelines, and further directing Defendant to send a copy of the twelve (12) quarterly reports to Plaintiff’s counsel for review;
• An Order directing Defendant, by a date certain, to make publicly available and directly link from the Website homepage, a statement of Defendant’s Accessibility Policy to ensure the persons with disabilities have full and equal enjoyment of the Website and shall accompany the public policy statement with an accessible means of submitting accessibility questions and problems;
• An award to Plaintiff of his reasonable attorney’s fees, costs and expenses; and
• Such other and further relief as the Court deems just and equitable.