Weight Watchers Print and Digital Accessibility Settlement Agreement
Posted on June 27, 2013
Posted here is the settlement agreement between Weight Watchers, the American Council of the Blind, and blind Weight Watchers members Alice Ritchhart and Lillian Scaife. The agreement demonstrates Weight Watchers’ strong commitment to digital accessibility for its members and subscribers who are blind and visually impaired. Weight Watchers will be using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA as the standard for its online and mobile application content, and will be providing print material in accessible formats for persons with visual impairments who cannot read standard print. Weight Watchers worked on this initiative in Structured Negotiations with the American Council of the Blind and individual blind Weight Watchers members. They were represented by the Law Office of Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian of the Oakland, California civil rights firm Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho.
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
This Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into by and between Alice Ritchhart, Lillian Scaife, the American Council of the Blind (“ACB”) (collectively referred to as “Claimants”) and Weight Watchers International, Inc. (“Weight Watchers”), for the purposes and on the terms specified herein and operates in conjunction with the Confidential Addendum to this Agreement. [...]