- Gainesville businesses faced lawsuits for websites failing ADA compliance with screen-to-text devices, prompting community concern.
- Tina Corbett quickly installed an ADA compliance widget on her High Springs art gallery website after learning about the lawsuits.
- Grant Walker’s GNV.AI offers free AI-driven ADA compliance updates to local websites, receiving about a dozen requests so far.
- Aaron Hall, a deaf web developer, favors education and pre-suit notices over costly lawsuits to improve website accessibility.
Tina Corbett operates Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies in High Springs, a retirement job to keep her active. The business makes just enough to cover the overhead, and if there’s any extra, Corbett said she puts it back into the business.
She often invites the public to her gallery for events, like for a showing of 26 paintings of Ireland earlier this year.
Because of decades of working as an illustrator for the United States Postal Service, Corbett said she learned about compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for physical locations. She’ll now walk through her store, between paints, paintbrushes and ready-for-purchase paintings, and think about whether a wheelchair could make it to every corner and all the wares…