Junior’s hit with federal lawsuit over website that ‘discriminates’ against the blind
Junior’s, the internationally known cheesecake maker and fixture on Flatbush Avenue for decades, discriminates against blind people by building a website that is intentionally inaccessible to the visually impaired, a new lawsuit charges.
Brian Fischler, who is legally blind, is seeking unspecified damages from the 67-year-old Downtown Brooklyn restaurant and demanding that it fix its website, www.juniorscheesecake.com, so that visually impaired people can navigate it, order online, view menus and take advantage of pop ups that advertise best sellers and “cheesecake giveaways.”
“Due to its failure and refusal to remove access barriers to its website, plaintiff Fischler and visually impaired persons have been and are still being denied equal access,” the civil complaint alleges.
