Sued by ADA Legal Team over your website?

ADA Legal Team, LLC is a law firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, that files website accessibility lawsuits in Florida's federal courts, mostly against local restaurants and shops. If your business was named in one, here's what the complaints say and what to do first.

This is a technical accessibility assessment, not legal advice, and automated testing cannot establish ADA compliance.

What the court records show

Between August 18 and October 12, 2026, the firm filed 42 ADA cases for the same plaintiff in the Middle District of Florida, in its Orlando, Tampa and Ocala divisions, by our count of the public dockets on CourtListener. We read the 7 complaints that are public. All 7 were about a website: five restaurants and bars, a pawn shop, and one national department store. None was filed as a class action.

The firm also files ADA cases about physical buildings, such as hotels. This page is only about the website cases.

What the complaint says

The 7 complaints follow the same template and run 38 to 51 pages:

• The plaintiff is legally blind, lives in central Florida and uses a screen reader.
• He visited the business's website on dates the complaint lists, from 3 to 13 visits over one to five months, to look at the menu or the products and plan a purchase.
• He sent a notice before suing. Every complaint says a pre-suit notice went to the business, 2 to 6 months before the case was filed, and that the barriers were still there afterwards.
• An expert hired by the plaintiff checked the site within two weeks of his first visit. The expert's declaration is attached as an exhibit.
• The complaint lists 8 to 15 barriers, each with the WCAG 2.1 rule it breaks and how it affects a blind user. They are specific to each site: links that open a new window without warning, a button the keyboard can't reach, a slideshow with no pause control, a PDF menu a screen reader can't read, a time picker in an ordering form that a screen reader can't use, headings in the wrong order.
• The website is described as a "digital extension" of the physical restaurant or store, where you can read the menu, see the hours and reach the ordering links.

Each one makes one claim, under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What it asks the court for

• A declaration that the website violates the ADA.
• An order to fix the website by a set date and keep it accessible, including any third-party tools on it, such as ordering or booking services.
• An accessibility page linked from the home page with a disability logo, an accessibility policy, a way to report problems, and a website accessibility coordinator.
• Yearly accessibility training for whoever builds or edits the website.
• Automated accessibility tests every three months, with 12 quarterly reports sent to the plaintiff's lawyers.
• The plaintiff's attorneys' fees, costs and expert fees. The complaints don't ask for other damages.

What any of this means for your business is a question for your attorney. How these lawsuits work, in plain English.

Common questions

Is the lawsuit real?

A filed case has a case number, such as 8:26-cv-03100. You can look it up free on CourtListener or on PACER, the federal courts' own system. If the case is there, it's real.

We got a notice, not a lawsuit. Should we wait?

In every complaint we read, the lawsuit followed a notice within a few months, and the complaint points out that the barriers were still there. Talk to an attorney about the notice, and start checking the barriers it names now.

We're one small restaurant. Why us?

Six of the 7 complaints we read are against the company that runs one local restaurant, bar or shop. The complaints don't depend on the business's size: they argue that the website serves a place open to the public. Whether that argument holds is a legal question; ask your attorney. ADA website lawsuits in Florida.

Our online ordering runs on another company's service. Is that our problem?

The complaints ask the court to make any third-party tools on the website accessible too. Ask the vendor what it has tested, and ask your attorney who is responsible.

Will an automated scan find these problems?

Only some of them. Most of the barriers these complaints list, like a link that opens a new window without warning or a button the keyboard can't reach, have to be checked by hand. A scan finds missing alternative text, unlabeled fields and low contrast. How we test, and what a scan can't tell you.

First steps

1. Write down the date you were served and talk to an attorney. A lawsuit has a short, fixed deadline to respond. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
2. List the specific barriers in the complaint. These complaints describe each one with the page element, so you can check them on your own site.
3. Check your PDF menu and ordering links. They appear again and again in these complaints.
4. Get the technical facts. Find out which barriers still exist today, and what else a scan finds. The complaint says its list is not the full list.
5. Fix the real issues in the site itself. Step-by-step fixes: WordPress, Shopify.
6. Keep dated records of what was wrong, what you changed and when.

How we counted

On October 14, 2026 we searched CourtListener for federal civil-rights cases coded "ADA – Other" that list the firm's lead counsel as plaintiff's counsel and were filed from August 14 to October 13, 2026, then counted the Middle District of Florida cases for the plaintiff in the website complaints. Cases that haven't reached CourtListener aren't counted, so the real number may be higher. We read the complaints that were available as public documents. We have no connection to the firm or its clients. If anything here is wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.

Sued by a different firm? See Gottlieb & Associates, Joseph & Norinsberg, Usher Law Group, East End Trial Group, Nye, Stirling, Hale, Miller & Sweet.