JUAN ORTEGA v. SOUND UNITED, LLC

    Plaintiff

    • Name: JUAN ORTEGA
    • Filing date: December 15, 2021
    • State of filing: New York

    Defendant

    • Name: SOUND UNITED, LLC
    • Website: www.polkaudio.com
    • Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
    • Summary: Polk Audio is an American manufacturer of audio products best known for its home and automobile speakers.

    Case Summary

    On December 15, 2021, JUAN ORTEGA filed a complaint in New York against SOUND UNITED, LLC. Plaintiff JUAN ORTEGA alleges that www.polkaudio.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

    Company Summary

    Polk Audio was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in
    5601 Metro Dr, Baltimore, MD 21215-3208, US.
    It is in the Household Durables industry and the website is polkaudio.com.

    Accessibility Overlays

    A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on December 17, 2021 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.

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