WALTER MITCHELL v. SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.

    Plaintiff

    • Name: WALTER MITCHELL
    • Filing date: August 19, 2021
    • State of filing: California

    Defendant

    • Name: SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
    • Website: www.ir.sonicautomotive.com
    • Industry: Automobiles & Components
    • Summary: Sonic Automotive is an automotive retailer based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

    Case Summary

    On August 19, 2021, WALTER MITCHELL filed a complaint in California against SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.. Plaintiff WALTER MITCHELL alleges that www.ir.sonicautomotive.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.

    Company Summary

    Sonic Automotive was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in
    4401 Colwick Rd, Charlotte, NC 28211-2311, US.
    It is in the Automotive industry and the website is sonicautomotive.com.

    Accessibility Overlays

    A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 2021 and 'HikeOrders Accessibility Enabler' 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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