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Do accessibility overlays work?
Plain-English accessibility & ADA guidance.
Accessibility overlay widgets promise one line of code makes your site compliant. They don't — and the FTC fined the largest overlay vendor $1,000,000 for saying so.
- Overlays sit on top of your site; they don't change the underlying code a screen reader reads.
- Courts have rejected overlays as a defense.
- Roughly 1 in 4 ADA website lawsuits target sites running an overlay.
- Disability advocates widely recommend against them.
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