Plaintiff
- Name: ANDREW BARACCO
- Filing date: July 22, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: HAPPY SOCKS NORTH AMERICA, INC.
- Website: www.happysocks.com
- Industry: Retailing
- Summary: Happy Socks is a Swedish manufacturer and retailer of socks, underwear, and swimwear.
Case Summary
On July 22, 2021, ANDREW BARACCO filed a complaint in California against HAPPY SOCKS NORTH AMERICA, INC.. Plaintiff ANDREW BARACCO alleges that www.happysocks.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Happy Socks was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in
Kungsgatan 12-14, 111 35 Stockholm, Sweden.
It is in the Retailing industry and the website is happysocks.com.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 06, 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.
