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Monthly report

Digital accessibility lawsuitsDecember 2025

170 federal disability-access cases were filed across 15 states, and the pattern is consistent: a small group of repeat plaintiffs, one law firm, and an online shop that could not be used.

170cases filed
85%could not complete a purchase
89%brought by a repeat plaintiff
64%filed by a single law firm

Counts cover all 170 filings, and the percentages come from an in-depth review of 66 of them.

  • This is repeat litigation. 89% of the complaints we read were brought by someone who has sued over a website before. One of them, Nelson Fernandez, accounts for 112 earlier cases in our archive.

  • One firm dominates. Equal Access Law Group PLLC filed 64% of them.

  • The claim barely varies. Every complaint cited the ADA and asked a court to order the site fixed, and 80% sought a nationwide class.

  • WCAG 2.2 is the yardstick. 67% of the complaints measured the site against WCAG 2.2, more than every other version put together.

  • Being sued once is not the end of it. 8 of this month’s defendants, or the websites they run, are already in our archive of 12,983 cases.

100%asked a court to order the website fixed
80%sought a class covering the whole country
65%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 the 66 complaints we read actually said, and every company, plaintiff and firm involved across all 170 filings.

  • What the complaints alleged, set against what scanners actually find
  • The relief asked for, the laws cited and the WCAG version named
  • Every company sued this month, with its industry and filing date
  • The defendants already in our archive
  • Where the cases were filed, across 15 states
  • The plaintiffs behind them and the firms acting for them

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How to read these figures

The counts cover the whole month. All 170 federal filings, across 15 states.

The percentages come from the complaints. We obtained 66 of the month's complaints and gave each one an in-depth review. Every share on this page describes that set of documents.

A complaint can allege several barriers and ask for several kinds of relief, so those shares add to more than 100%.

How to use this report

We report what the court records show. Where we are shown an error we correct it.