Plaintiff
- Name: Jory Pedersen
- Filing date: August 24, 2021
- State of filing: California
Defendant
- Name: Gary J. Alter, M.D.
- Website: www.altermd.com
- Industry: Consumer Discretionary
- Summary: Gary J. Alter, M.D. offers aesthetic genital and plastic surgery.
Case Summary
On August 24, 2021, Jory Pedersen filed a complaint in California against Gary J. Alter, M.D.. Plaintiff Jory Pedersen alleges that www.altermd.com is not sufficiently digitally accessible.
Gary J. Alter, M.D. offers aesthetic genital and plastic surgery.
Accessibility Overlays
A scan for 3rd Party Overlays was performed on August 31, 2021 and ‘Accessibe’ 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.
