Monthly report

Digital accessibility lawsuitsAugust 2026

Federal website accessibility filings rose 12% in August to 180, with repeat plaintiffs bringing 89% of complaints and Gottlieb & Associates PLLC filing 37%.

180cases filed

52%could not complete a purchase

89%brought by a repeat plaintiff

37%filed by a single law firm

Counts cover all 180 filings, and the percentages come from an in-depth review of 71 of them.

Filings rose 12% from July, to 180 from 161.
Repeat plaintiffs brought 89% of complaints, up from 79% in July.
Gottlieb & Associates PLLC filed 37% of the month's complaints, down from 40% in July.
75% of complaints sought a class covering the whole country, down from 81% in July.
Nelson Fernandez, with 116 earlier cases in the archive, was among the month's plaintiffs, the highest repeat count.

100%asked a court to order the website fixed

75%sought a class covering the whole country

69%asked for compensatory damages

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The headline figures are open to everyone. The report behind this form is the working detail: what 71 complaints actually said, and the companies, plaintiffs and firms behind them.

What the complaints alleged, set against what scanners actually find
The relief asked for, the laws cited and the WCAG version named
Selected companies sued this month, each linked to its case
The defendants already in our archive
Where the cases were filed, across 9 states
The plaintiffs behind them and the firms acting for them