The Credit Union Times is reporting that nine Virginia credit unions are being sued for violating the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) by failing to make their websites accessible to the visually impaired.
The lawsuits allege the credit unions' websites were not embedded with the code that would allow screen readers to describe graphics, or contained links with no readable text, or had redundant links.
The lawsuits also claim the credit unions were informed about the problems and failed to fix the problems on their websites.
The nine credit unions are Cadmus Credit Union Inc. (Richmond, VA), Virginia Credit Union Inc. (Richmond, VA), ABNB FCU (Chesapeake, VA), Blue Eagle CU (Roanoke, VA), Member One FCU (Roanoke, VA), NRL FCU (Alexandria, VA), Arlington Community FCU (Falls Church, VA), Henrico FCU (Henrico, VA), and Pentagon FCU (Tyson, VA).
According to the story, NRF FCU has reported that the issue has been resolved.
These lawsuits have some credit union bloggers warning that credit unions need to start making their websites ADA compliant.
Read the Credit Union Times story.
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