JAMES MURPHY v. BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY

    Plaintiff

    • Name: JAMES MURPHY
    • Filing date: January 17, 2023
    • State of filing: New York

    Defendant

    • Name: BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY
    • Website: www.ben.edu
    • Industry: Diversified Consumer Services
    • Summary: Benedictine University is a Catholic institution with undergraduate & graduate programs. Diverse and engaged campuses in Lisle, Illinois, & Mesa, Arizona.

    Case Summary

    On January 17, 2023, JAMES MURPHY filed a complaint in New York against BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY. Plaintiff JAMES MURPHY alleges that www.ben.edu is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

    Company Summary

    Benedictine University was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in
    5700 College Rd, Lisle, IL 60532, USA.
    It is in the Education Services industry and the website is ben.edu.

    Accessibility Overlays

    A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on February 11, 2023 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.

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