EVELINA CALCANO v. EFFY & CO., INC.

Filed September 1, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: EVELINA CALCANO
Filing date: September 1, 2021
State of filing: New York

Defendant

Name: EFFY & CO., INC.
Website: www.effyjewelry.com
Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
Summary: Effy Jewelry designs and manufactures handcrafted jewelry.

Case Summary

On September 1, 2021, EVELINA CALCANO filed a complaint in New York against EFFY & CO., INC.. Plaintiff EVELINA CALCANO alleges that www.effyjewelry.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Company Summary

Effy Jewelry was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in

New York, NY, USA.

It is in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry and the website is effyjewelry.com.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on September 14, 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.