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A roughly 70% solution is to mandate WCAG 2.1 AA conformance. After that the problems largely distill down to misleading and deceptive content. Deceptive content resulting in a financial harm not as a result of a technical defect is fraud.

How to prove fraud in court? Easy, make them liable for presenting accessibility conformance against the issue in question. The defendant only has to demonstrate a good faith effort to account for and correct the issue, but if they cannot do that, because fraud is intentional, take them to the cleaners.



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