Coverage Archive

SFist

March 24, 2017

Popular, two-year-old automat-style eatery Eatsa, where meals are ordered via smartphone or touchscreen kiosks, is now being served with a class-action lawsuit arguing that the ordering system and food retrieval process discriminates against blind people.

BuzzFeed

March 24, 2017

Eatsa — the futuristic, eerily-quiet quinoa restaurant that lets you bypass human interaction by ordering on touchscreens and picking up your food from a locker — violates the civil rights of blind people, a new lawsuit claims.

Eater

March 24, 2017

Eatsa, the modern automat that opened its first location in San Francisco in 2015, has been sued for not accommodating blind patrons in its ordering model or store design.

Palm Beach Post

March 18, 2017

A New York memorial built to honor Franklin D. Roosevelt, America’s first wheelchair using president, has numerous features that make it difficult for wheelchair users to enjoy, a class-action lawsuit says.

CNN

March 17, 2017

If Franklin D. Roosevelt were alive today, the former President would have trouble accessing a New York memorial built to honor him, a lawsuit says.

Reuters

March 17, 2017

People who use wheelchairs are unable to fully enjoy a New York City park named after President Franklin Roosevelt, one of the most famous wheelchair users in U.S. history, a class-action lawsuit claims.

Fox News

March 17, 2017

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used a wheelchair for years but a New York City memorial in his honor is inaccessible to wheelchair-using visitors, a new lawsuit claims.

PIX11 News

March 17, 2017

President Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn’t have been able to fully access a park on Roosevelt Island named in his honor: the park begins and ends with stairs.

Curbed NY (Vox Media)

March 17, 2017

Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park is now the subject of a class-action lawsuit, which alleges that the park’s design violates the Americans With Disabilities act, and is not fully accessible.

New York Times

March 16, 2017

A New York park honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair for years, is not fully accessible to disabled people, according to a class-action suit filed against the state and the conservancy that runs the park.