On November 13, Judge Marilyn J. Horan of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania preliminarily approved a class action settlement resolving disability discrimination claims against iFit Inc., a retailer that sells exercise equipment and interactive fitness classes via its digital properties, which include four different websites and its mobile application, iFIT At-Home Workout & Fitness. 

The complaint centered on iFit’s failure to communicate information on its digital properties to consumers who use screen readers, thereby denying these consumers full and equal access to iFits’s products and services.

The action was initiated by Blair Douglass, resulting in Douglass v. iFit Inc. However, because the settlement also seeks to resolve all claims for injunctive relief, the Court has ordered Douglass to contact at least 11 named organizations, among them BVA, to inform them of the settlement. Under the terms, iFIT Inc. agrees to take additional steps to make the four websites and mobile apps accessible to blind or visually disabled consumers. For a more complete summary of the terms of the proposed settlement, click here.