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   Courts have dismissed some cases where businesses produced documented evidence that the accessibility problems were genuinely fixed.

   In 2026, Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a website accessibility action as moot after the defendant submitted evidence that it had taken commercially reasonable steps to make its website accessible, including an outside consultant's work, and the plaintiff submitted no evidence to the contrary. The dismissal was without prejudice, and outcomes turn on the facts and evidence in each case. Source: Seyfarth Shaw, Lawsuit Dismissed As Moot Based on (Unrebutted) Evidence that Website is Accessible, ADA Title III blog, April 2026 (opens in new tab).

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   Nearly half of last year's federal accessibility cases involved companies that had already been sued.

   Of the more than 5,000 digital accessibility lawsuits filed in 2025, 1,427 targeted companies that had already faced an ADA web accessibility claim. In federal court, 46 percent of cases involved repeat defendants. Source: UsableNet, 2025 Year-End Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report (opens in new tab).

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   Of the top one million homepages had detectable accessibility failures.

   The 2026 WebAIM Million analysis found that 95.9 percent of the top one million home pages had detectable WCAG 2 failures, up from 94.8 percent in 2025, with an average of 56.1 detected errors per page. These figures reflect automated detection only; manual evaluation surfaces additional failures. Source: WebAIM, The WebAIM Million, February 2026 analysis (opens in new tab).

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   Of companies sued last year had annual revenue below $25 million.

   UsableNet reports that 36 percent of companies sued in the first half of 2025 had annual revenue exceeding $25 million, up from 33 percent in 2024. The remaining 64 percent fell below that threshold. UsableNet notes that the share of larger defendants has been rising, which suggests plaintiffs increasingly target companies with more resources to settle. The figure reflects first-half 2025 data. Source: UsableNet, ADA Website Compliance Lawsuit Tracker (opens in new tab).

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   Of accessibility issues are typically found by automated scanners alone.

   This figure reflects automated coverage measured against the WCAG success criteria themselves. WCAG 2.1 Level AA contains 50 success criteria, 30 at Level A and 20 at Level AA. Approximately 15 to 16 of those 50, or roughly 30 percent, can be meaningfully evaluated by automated tooling. The remainder depend on human judgment: whether alternative text is meaningful, whether reading and focus order are logical, whether a task can actually be completed with assistive technology, and whether dynamic state changes are communicated. Verona cites the success criteria basis because it can be verified directly against the published standard and does not rely on any tooling vendor's assessment of its own product. Coverage figures reported on other bases, such as the share of total issue instances detected across a body of audits, are measuring a different quantity and are not comparable. Source: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, W3C Recommendation (opens in new tab).

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   Of last year's digital accessibility lawsuits targeted e-commerce.

   E-commerce accounted for approximately 70 percent of all ADA digital accessibility lawsuits in 2025, with food service at roughly 21 percent. Source: UsableNet, 2025 Year-End Digital Accessibility Lawsuit Report (opens in new tab).

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   Increase in federal website accessibility lawsuits, 2025 over 2024.

   Plaintiffs filed 3,117 website accessibility lawsuits in federal court in 2025, compared with 2,452 in 2024, an increase of 665 filings or approximately 27 percent. Website cases accounted for 36 percent of all federal ADA Title III lawsuits filed that year, 3,117 of 8,667, up from 28 percent the prior year. The 2025 rebound reverses the 14 percent and 13 percent declines recorded in 2023 and 2024. Figures counting state court filings alongside federal filings report totals above 5,000 for the same period and are measuring a broader population, so they are not directly comparable to the federal figure cited here. Verona cites the federal docket figure because it is a complete, verifiable count rather than an estimate. Source: Seyfarth Shaw, ADA Title III News and Insights (opens in new tab).

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