{"id":73674,"date":"2021-01-08T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73674"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:44:14","slug":"u-s-businesses-potentially-spent-billions-on-legal-fees-for-inaccessible-websites-in-2020-boia-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/01\/08\/u-s-businesses-potentially-spent-billions-on-legal-fees-for-inaccessible-websites-in-2020-boia-org\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Businesses Potentially Spent Billions on Legal Fees for Inaccessible Websites in 2020 [boia.org]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\/did-u-s-businesses-spend-billions-on-legal-fees-for-inaccessible-websites-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>U.S. Businesses Potentially Spent Billions on Legal Fees for Inaccessible Websites in 2020<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from boia.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In a bombshell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessibility.com\/complete-report-2020-website-accessibility-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report published by Accessibility.com<\/a>, the organization estimated that 265,000 website accessibility demand letters were sent to businesses last year. Astounding on its own, if the figure is correct or close to correct, U.S. companies could have spent billions of dollars in legal costs as a direct result of inaccessible websites in 2020 alone. Businesses looking for a wake-up call to make website accessibility a priority in 2021 and beyond might have just found it.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The above article linked to:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessibility.com\/complete-report-2020-website-accessibility-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73675\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020WebsiteAccessiblityLawsuitRecap-1-7-21-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"2020 Website Accessibility Lawsuit Recap -- from Accessibility.com\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020WebsiteAccessiblityLawsuitRecap-1-7-21-1024x627.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020WebsiteAccessiblityLawsuitRecap-1-7-21-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020WebsiteAccessiblityLawsuitRecap-1-7-21-768x470.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020WebsiteAccessiblityLawsuitRecap-1-7-21.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BOAI&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/compliance-roadmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BOIA&#8217;s Compliance Roadmap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\/five-key-accessibility-considerations-for-chatbots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five Key Accessibility Considerations for Chatbots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Businesses Potentially Spent Billions on Legal Fees for Inaccessible Websites in 2020 &#8212; from boia.org Excerpt: In a bombshell\u00a0report published by Accessibility.com, the organization estimated that 265,000 website accessibility demand letters were sent to businesses last year. Astounding on its own, if the figure is correct or close to correct, U.S. companies could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,115,302,260,112,200,286,98,3,391,119,55,46,825,838,285,382,321,214,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-digital-learning","category-elearning","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-instructional-design","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning-experience-design","category-legislation-legislatures","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-united-states","category-universities","category-web-design-and-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73674"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73690,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73674\/revisions\/73690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}