Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
5 min readMar 17, 2019
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Wait, I can get sued for using Wix and GoDaddy?? What the Actual Heck?!?!

Why yes. Yes, you can. In a heart beat.

Here is a little background on how this story came into being. I’ve recently spent an absolutely mind blowing two days in Anaheim at CSUN pre-conferences followed by the CSUN conference itself. I taught Accessibility Program Management strategies with Gian Wild at the ICT Accessibility Bootcamp (love teaching at bootcamps !) and then spent the day just listening to leaders in the field at the inaugural Digital Accessibility Legal Summit. My joint talk with David Fazio on UX Research involving people with disabilities at CSUN was well attended.

Of course I tried to “chat up” the writing I’ve been doing on accessibility and disabilities on Medium as much as I can, without being too obnoxious I hope. Maybe all this talking about myself (which runs against my Canadian personality) will allow me to sell 13 instead of 12 books some day. I had lunch with Jared Smith from WebAIM and attended a reception with Dan Goldstein, recently retired from Brown, Goldstein, Levy. It was really hard not to act like a COMPLETE fangirl !!

Right after I rattled off some of my article titles, Dan asked me in a very…

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Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.