#userway — Public Fediverse posts

Specifically #AudioEye (best known for SLAPP suits versus useful tooling) and #UserWay (best known for destroying the Level Access brand). Anyway, utter disappointment to see #CSUNATC giving them a platform.

Refs:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html
• https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html

#accessibility #overlays #a11y

If you’re new to, um, me, then I have info on both overlay vendors:

#AudioEye:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/02/audioeye-will-get-you-sued.html

#UserWay:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html

And because there is a session on the Overlay Community Group:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/accessibility-at-the-edge-w3c-cg-is-an-overlay-smoke-screen.html

Driven by those two #overlay vendors.

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

#overlays #UserWay #LevelAccess

Reminded someone that not only did #accessiBe’s overlay not help a site, it may have been a factor in the lawsuit against that site (PDF):
https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.pawd.316620

Paragraph 45 also takes a shot at #UserWay and #AudioEye.

Docket:
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56797092/MONTANO_et_al_v_RESTAURANT_EQUIPPERS,_INC

#accessibility #overlays #a11y

#CSUNATC #overlay mini recap:

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).

@aardrian I just saw a website with #UserWay and was at first swayed by the bells and whistles of it all... but this gives me some thought... and pause.

See "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)"

#Blogging #WordPress #Plugins #WCAG
#ADA #Disabilities #Accessibility #AccessibilityOverlay #overlay #AmericansWithDisabilities #TheBarriersWeFace