LUIS LICEA v. GERTRUDE HAWK CHOCOLATES, INC.

    Plaintiff

    • Name: LUIS LICEA
    • Filing date: October 26, 2021
    • State of filing: California

    Defendant

    • Name: GERTRUDE HAWK CHOCOLATES, INC.
    • Website: www.gertrudehawkchocolates.com
    • Industry: Consumer Staples
    • Summary: Online retail store selling handcrafted chocolates.

    Case Summary

    On October 26, 2021, LUIS LICEA filed a complaint in California against GERTRUDE HAWK CHOCOLATES, INC.. Plaintiff LUIS LICEA alleges that www.gertrudehawkchocolates.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

    Company Summary

    Gertrude Hawk Chocolates was founded in 1936 and is headquartered in
    9 Keystone Industrial Park, Dunmore, PA 18512-1516, US.
    It is in the Consumer Staples industry and the website is gertrudehawkchocolates.com.

    Accessibility Overlays

    A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on October 27, 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.

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