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Monthly report

Digital accessibility lawsuitsMarch 2026

Federal website accessibility lawsuits rose 20% in March 2026, reaching 326 filings as Equal Access Law Group PLLC maintained its dominance and repeat plaintiffs sustained their share of complaints.

326cases filed
74%could not complete a purchase
80%brought by a repeat plaintiff
50%filed by a single law firm

Counts cover all 326 filings, and the percentages come from an in-depth review of 203 of them.

  • Equal Access Law Group PLLC filed half of all complaints, down slightly from 52% in February but still three times the share of any other firm.

  • WCAG 2.2 was named in 56% of complaints, up from 53% in February and now appearing in more than twice as many filings as WCAG 2.1.

  • Cedric Bishop, with 60 earlier cases in the archive, was again among this month's plaintiffs, the highest repeat count.

  • 56 defendants had already been sued in an earlier case, demonstrating that one complaint does not end a company's exposure.

  • Consumer goods companies were sued most often, accounting for 36% of defendants, followed by retailers at 26%.

98%asked a court to order the website fixed
72%sought a class covering the whole country
21%asked for compensatory damages

Read the full report

The headline figures are open to everyone. The report behind this form is the working detail: what the 203 complaints we read actually said, and every company, plaintiff and firm involved across all 326 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 21 states
  • The plaintiffs behind them and the firms acting for them

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