After Years of Failed Attempts to Get the San Jose Sharks to Comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Blind Fans Resort to Lawsuit – Disability Rights Advocates

After Years of Failed Attempts to Get the San Jose Sharks to Comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Blind Fans Resort to Lawsuit

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Berkeley, CA (March 26, 2019)—As the San Jose Sharks clinch their fourth-consecutive berth to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, blind hockey fans take aim at the NHL team’s failure to ensure equal access to the digital fan experience. The San Jose Sharks + SAP Center mobile application—a key digital piece of fans’ interaction with the stadium and the team—is ubiquitously inaccessible via the assistive technology, called screen readers, that blind individuals use to access such services. Find a copy of the complaint below.

Marco Salsiccia has been a San Jose Sharks fan ever since the team’s inaugural season in 1991. When he lost his vision suddenly in 2014, he feared that attending hockey games would no longer be enjoyable, but he found that by going to the SAP Center (called the “Shark Tank” by many fans) with a radio, he could listen [...]

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