ADA Lawsuit Risk Response

The first action is preservation, not repair. Changing the site before the state is recorded destroys the only evidence of what a visitor encountered, so the pages named are captured with rendered output, computed styles and the accessibility tree, dated and hashed. Remediation is then sequenced by what a complaint actually cites rather than by what is easiest: keyboard traps and unreachable interactive controls first, because a control a keyboard user cannot reach blocks the transaction entirely; then form labeling and error identification, which block completion; then contrast and alternative text, which impair but do not block. Each item is recorded against the specific success criterion it fails, with the before state, the change, and the re-test, so the record is a chronology rather than an assertion. Screen reader verification uses NVDA and VoiceOver on the actual pages named, since an automated score is not evidence that a person can complete the task. Nothing here is legal advice, and the output is written to be handed to counsel rather than to be relied on in place of them.

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