Find out if your website is accessible to the disabled; such lawsuits tripled in 2018.

For employers, part of complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act involves making their workplace accessible to disabled customers. That can involve everything from building ramps to changing the handles on doors.

But if you serve the public online, the ADA also requires you to make changes to your virtual workplace.

This could include making your website accessible to customers or applicants who are blind or who have other disabilities. That may require coding your site to work with assistive technologies like screen readers.

Don't think people will notice? A local plaintiff's attorney might. In just the past year, ADA-related website accessibility lawsuits filed in federal court have spiked by 177% (from 814 in 2017 to 2,258 last year), according to a Seyfarth Shaw report. Most of those lawsuits are focused in onethird of states, with New York and Florida being the busiest.

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