REBECCA CASTILLO v. ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL VENTURE INC.

Filed August 25, 2021

Plaintiff

Name: REBECCA CASTILLO
Filing date: August 25, 2021
State of filing: California

Defendant

Name: ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL VENTURE INC.
Website: www.cocomelody.com
Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
Summary: Cocomelody is a global bridal brand.

Case Summary

On August 25, 2021, REBECCA CASTILLO filed a complaint in California against ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL VENTURE INC.. Plaintiff REBECCA CASTILLO alleges that www.cocomelody.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

Cocomelody is a global bridal brand.

Accessibility Overlays

A scan for 3^rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 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.