EVELINA CALCANO v. CODEX BEAUTY CORPORATION

Filed August 24, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: EVELINA CALCANO
Filing date: August 24, 2021
State of filing: New York

Defendant

Name: CODEX BEAUTY CORPORATION
Website: www.codexbeauty.com
Industry: Consumer Discretionary
Summary: Codex Beauty Labs is a skincare online retailer.

Case Summary

On August 24, 2021, EVELINA CALCANO filed a complaint in New York against CODEX BEAUTY CORPORATION. Plaintiff EVELINA CALCANO alleges that www.codexbeauty.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Codex Beauty Labs is a skincare online retailer.

Accessibility Overlays

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