ELBERT DAWKINS v. WEST GARDEN, INC.

Filed January 11, 2023

Plaintiff

Name: ELBERT DAWKINS
Filing date: January 11, 2023
State of filing: New York

Defendant

Name: WEST GARDEN, INC.
Website: www.westgardenspa.com
Industry: Consumer Services
Summary: West Garden Spa is a Asian full body massage spa.

Case Summary

On January 11, 2023, ELBERT DAWKINS filed a complaint in New York against WEST GARDEN, INC.. Plaintiff ELBERT DAWKINS alleges that www.westgardenspa.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

West Garden Spa is headquartered in

243 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001, USA.

It is in the Chemicals industry and the website is westgardenspa.com.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on February 09, 2023 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.