Discord Digital Accessibiity Settlement Agreement
Posted on October 30, 2021
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This page has a legal settlement agreement between Discord and the American Council of the Blind. The agreement was reached to make Discord’s website more usable for everyone, including disabled people. It also makes the company’s mobile app easier to use. Discord will use accessibility guidelines to help with this work. The company worked with the American Council of the Blind on this project. There was no lawsuit. Instead, the company and the ACB used Structured Negotiation instead of a lawsuit. Structured Negotiation helps people work together to solve legal problems without conflict or run-away costs.
Congratulations to Discord! Posted here is the digital accessibility settlement agreement the company reached with the American Council of the Blind. The agreement is designed to ensure that Discord’s public-facing website and mobile application are available to people with and without disabilities.Discord will use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 AA and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG) as part of its accessibility program.
Discord participated in Structured Negotiation — no lawsuit was needed or filed.The Law Office of Lainey Feingold and Washington, D.C. civil rights lawyer Matt Handley of Handley Farah & Anderson [...]