ADA website lawsuits
This is general information, not legal advice.
ADA website lawsuits are cases in the United States about access to websites, apps and video. The counts below come from UsableNet's published research. AltGrade does not file cases and does not predict who gets sued.
UsableNet's 2025 mid-year figures
According to UsableNet's 2025 mid-year report, plaintiffs filed 2,019 digital accessibility lawsuits from 1 January 2025 through 30 June 2025. The report covers the 11 federal circuits and key state courts, including New York and California. It includes websites, mobile apps and video.
The same research says e-commerce accounted for 69% of those lawsuits. Food services were next, at 18%. Jason Taylor summarised the report on 9 July 2025. Read it here: https://blog.usablenet.com/2025-midyear-accessibility-lawsuit-report-key-legal-trends. The PDF is at https://info.usablenet.com/hubfs/2025-MidYear-Report-FINAL.pdf.
These figures are UsableNet's. They describe filings in that half-year. They are not a forecast for your shop.
Online stores are the largest share
Sixty-nine percent is a retail story. Plaintiffs in that dataset spent the first half of 2025 on shops: product pages, carts, and checkouts a customer could not finish. That matches the templates AltGrade is built to scan.
UsableNet also reported lawsuits against companies using accessibility widgets in every month of that half-year. The complaints they describe say the widget left the underlying code broken. A toolbar on top of the theme does not name a button or darken a price.
ADA.gov remains the official source for the statute: https://www.ada.gov/. Commentary from law firms is not the statute. We cite UsableNet because the report states a method, a period, and a number we could check.
Fix the path to purchase
Open the homepage, one product, the cart, and the start of checkout. Tab through each page. Mute any video and look for captions. Measure the price colour against the card it sits on. Then scan, including a phone-width pass, because a sticky add-to-cart bar often covers the focused control.
Typical fixes are specific. Name the cart icon. Replace file-name alt text with the product and the colour. Put a visible label on the email field. Restore a focus outline the theme removed. Write error text, not only a red border. Pause a carousel that moves on its own.
Write down the date you changed each one. The next scan should show those items gone. If a theme publish brings them back, the monitoring email says so. That record is for your developer. It is not a filing.
Use the scan for the shop, not for the lawsuit
Start with the free scan. Ten pages, a score, and the top five issues, with no account. The £49 audit covers up to 50 pages and a PDF. Monitoring from £19 a month rescans and keeps the dates. No tax is added.
None of that answers a complaint. If a letter has already arrived, keep it, note the date, and speak to a lawyer before you reply. Use the scan so the developer has a list while the lawyer handles the response.
What the mid-year report does not say
The 2,019 filings cover websites, mobile apps and video, from 1 January 2025 through 30 June 2025. Do not quote that number as a count of website-only cases. The useful cut for a shop is the 69 percent that UsableNet placed in e-commerce.
Questions
Where does 2,019 come from?
UsableNet's 2025 mid-year digital accessibility lawsuit report, for 1 January 2025 through 30 June 2025. Their 9 July 2025 article says 69% of those cases were e-commerce.
Does a widget stop a case?
UsableNet reported suits against companies using widgets throughout that half-year. AltGrade does not sell a widget. Fix the page.
Will the fix list end a lawsuit?
No. It is a technical list. Ask a lawyer about any claim. Automated scans cannot catch every WCAG issue a person would find.