Mizrahi Kroub ADA Website Lawsuits: What Businesses Need to Know
- Aug 19
- 3 min read
Mizrahi Kroub ADA website lawsuits are among the most common digital accessibility cases filed against U.S. businesses. The New York ADA plaintiff firm has spent years suing companies whose websites allegedly block blind and low-vision users who rely on screen readers. If you sell products or services online, understanding how these cases work is the fastest way to reduce risk, and if you have already been sued, your next steps are critical to keep costs low and avoid future cases.
Who are Mizrahi Kroub and What are Their ADA Cases All About?
Mizrahi Kroub is a New York City plaintiff-side firm that represents employees, consumers, and people with disabilities. It grew out of Cohen & Mizrahi and markets itself as an ADA practice that handles physical and digital access claims. Partners include Joseph Mizrahi and Edward Y. Kroub. The firm’s own website says it has handled thousands of disability cases in federal court. Law Offices of Nolan Klein has defended businesses against dozens of those cases.
In website cases, the firm typically represents visually impaired “tester” plaintiffs. Those plaintiffs visit ecommerce sites, document barriers, and file suit under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, often paired with New York State and New York City human-rights laws. The same plaintiff may appear in dozens of similar complaints.
Why do these lawsuits happen? Title III of the ADA bars discrimination by places of public accommodation. Many federal courts—especially in New York—treat a retail or service website as part of that public accommodation when it offers goods or services to the public. There is still no single, binding federal website rule for private businesses, so plaintiffs usually ask courts to treat WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the practical standard.
Typical complaint language is highly similar across cases. Common allegations include:
Images and buttons without alternative text
Empty or unlabeled links
Menus and forms that cannot be used with a keyboard
Dropdowns and checkout flows that fail with screen readers
Content that requires a mouse
Complaints often seek an injunction to fix the site, a declaration of liability, damages under state or city law, and attorney’s fees.
ADA filings remain very high. Trackers counted more than 5,000 website and app cases across federal and key state courts in 2025, with 2026 on pace for another increase. New York is still a leading venue. Ecommerce sites make up the large majority of targets. The Wall Street Journal reported that Mizrahi Kroub filed more than 1,100 web-accessibility cases in a single recent year and was then the largest filer, accounting for roughly one-quarter of digital ADA cases according to UsableNet.
What to Do If You Are Sued—or Want to Avoid Being Sued?
Do not ignore the complaint. Deadlines are short. Preserve the live site as it existed when the plaintiff visited, then have our law firm review standing, venue, and whether the plaintiff actually tried to use the site as a customer, and otherwise determine the most cost effective means for ending the case.
Prevention still beats litigation. All business websites should do the following:
Audit key user paths (home, search, product, cart, checkout, account) against WCAG 2.1 AA.
Fix missing alt text, labels, focus order, and keyboard traps first. Those issues appear in almost every complaint.
Do not treat an overlay widget as a complete defense. Many sued sites already had one.
Keep a written remediation plan. Courts and opposing counsel treat documented progress more seriously than a last-minute patch.
Recheck after every major redesign or plugin change. Accessibility decays as content changes.
FAQs
Does every website have to meet WCAG?
No. Federal regulation currently forces private sites to meet a named WCAG version. Plaintiffs and many courts still use WCAG 2.1 AA as the measuring stick.
Can a New York tester sue a company based elsewhere?
Yes, if the business sells online to New York customers and the plaintiff alleges they could not complete a purchase or comparable task.
Will fixing the site end the case?
Remediation helps, especially on injunctive claims, but money demands and fee claims may still need to be negotiated.
Website accessibility litigation is now a standing cost of doing business online. Knowing how Mizrahi Kroub ADA website lawsuits are built—and which barriers they cite—lets owners fix real problems before a complaint arrives, and deal eeficiently with claims after they are filed.
Contact Law Offices of Nolan Klein, P.A. if your business received a Mizrahi Kroub claim.
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