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From @LFLegal, a magistrate just has recommended the suit against UserWay (Level Access) from BloomsyBox move forward.
BloomsyBox sued UserWay for violation of the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act.
More info and links to recommendation:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/02/userway-overlay-lawsuit/#article-updates -
But back to Michael's effort — it seems to validate things have not improved nearly two years after #UserWay / #LevelAccess had that hilarious failure with LLM-generated “accessible” code supposedly trained on its own stuff.
Ref: http://FuxMyCode.ai/
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From @LFLegal:
New on LFLegal: Another small business filed a federal class action lawsuit against a web #accessibility #overlay company. Why was UserWay sued? It believed the hype, licensed the software, and still got sued by a #blind person who couldn't use the site. #disability
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/02/userway-overlay-lawsuit/From me: #LevelAccess is #UserWay now, remember that.
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Oh hey, it’s #GAAD.
Be on the lookout for the (mostly corporate) performative A11yship of #GAAD which is about to fill your timelines.
A couple years ago I demonstrated #overlay companies as the worst offenders:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html#accessiBe #AudioEye #FACILiti #LevelAccess #UserWay #accessibility #a11y
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Irony.
It's unfortunate when good messages are undercut (while also validated in this case?) because the site hosting them uses an #accessibility #overlay. In this case, #UserWay by #LevelAccess.
Edited to add link to valuable article: https://www.c-q-l.org/resources/articles/many-disability-professionals-dont-understand-ableism/
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I memorialized this in my post tracking #UserWay / #LevelAccess bad behavior:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#FakeForbesBroader reach and easier than finding this thread.
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I have updated three posts on my site with this info (mostly the same content, tweaked for each post):
• “#UserWay Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#CGDoJ• “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09• “‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edge-w3c-cg-is-an-overlay-smoke-screen.html#Update05Misrepresentation and misuse of the W3C brand and its employee / contractor relationships is the UserWay (now #LevelAccess) norm.
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Consider when reading obvious puff pieces like this one:
“How Level Access Acquiring UserWay Transforms The Web Accessibility Market”
https://web.archive.org/web/20240409112122/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2024/04/09/how-level-access-acquiring-userway-transforms-the-web-accessibility-market/Signs this is astroturfing:
• Claims it is ‘AI’ (it never was, & UserWay’s first LLM effort is still a gag),
• effusive positive terms to describe it and #LevelAccess,
• ignores heaps of (real) press critical of UserWay,
• no other sources,
• #UserWay has a history of doing this (see its overlay Community Group). -
FT article that references #AudioEye, #accessiBe, #UserWay (#LevelAccess), and #EqualWeb along with #overlays in general:
https://front-end.social/@tink/112228546128718031Non-paywall link:
https://archive.is/MRhllWhile it mischaracterizes the crappy algorithms as ‘AI’, the output is still shitty for users regardless of branding.
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@koos It’s an #overlay. It may not lie as openly as #UserWay (#LevelAccess) or #accessiBe, and it may not file frivolous lawsuits like #AudioEye, but Eye-Able introduces WCAG violations and does not fix much. You can read the discussion around trying to get itself delisted from the Overlay Fact Sheet a few months ago:
https://github.com/karlgroves/overlayfactsheet/issues/1086FWIW, most overlay companies also do manual work. But Eye-Able’s own errors demonstrate it likely isn’t good at that either.
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1. This talk: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17kTEwIRfHDtygt4iw71dTRXIJ4rLCDOUPC3vL-SUGcs/edit#slide=id.g2c0e9fc6f1c_1_19
2. Much of this: https://visperoinc.sharepoint.com/:p:/s/TPGiPermalinks/Ec9QVzJwd1NLkuEKcrVz4ksBzc82HdaC1P7BFEKj0UiYFQ?rtime=q1uZBSdN3Eg
3. A bit of this: https://webaccessibilitysurvey.com/wp-content/uploads/CSUN-Web-Survey-Findings-from-Online-Disability-Communities-2024.pptx
4. Suspicious missing #AudioEye session (with #GAAD co-founder): https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html#comment-284421
5. *Everyone* congratulating me about #AudioEye.
6. People correctly referring to #LevelAccess as an overlay vendor.
7. Folks frustrated Level Access framing its #UserWay buyout as a balm to burn-out.
8. Attached stickers (from @lloydi & Silktide). -
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Aaron’s is a less acerbic and more hopeful version of my binary “No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/06/no-ai-will-not-fix-accessibility.htmlLéonie’s confirms that #UserWay / #LevelAccess has trained its LLM on its own broken code and has not improved since I called it out 8 months ago:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#MoreFakeAIThe point is, these are fallible tools that can be helpful with the right existing knowledge or in absence of anything else.