Plaintiff
- Name: PERLA MAGENO
- Filing date: July 22, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: BOOHOO.COM USA, INC
- Website: us.boohoo.com
- Industry: Consumer Durables & Apparel
- Summary: Boohoo Group plc is a United Kingdom-based online fashion retailer, aimed at 16–30 year olds.
Case Summary
On July 22, 2021, PERLA MAGENO filed a complaint in California against BOOHOO.COM USA, INC. Plaintiff PERLA MAGENO alleges that us.boohoo.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Company Summary
Boohoo Group plc was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in
49-51 Dale St, Manchester M1 2HF, UK.
It is in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry and the website is boohoo.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.
