Supreme Court hands victory to blind man who sued Domino’s over site accessibility

Domino's store front

CNBC 

PUBLISHED MON, OCT 7 2019 9:40 AM EDT UPDATED TUE, OCT 8 2019 6:31 PM EDT

Tucker Higgins

KEY POINTS

  • The Supreme Court denied a petition from pizza giant Domino’s on Monday to hear whether its website is required to be accessible to the disabled, leaving in place a lower court decision against the company.
  • The case was originally brought by a blind man named Guillermo Robles, who sued the pizza chain after he was unable to order food on Domino’s website and mobile app despite using screen-reading software.
  • The decision not to grant the case is a loss for the company and a win for disability advocates, who have argued that if businesses do not have to maintain accessible sites, disabled people could be effectively shut out of substantial portions of the economy.

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