philiphodgen

I received a friendly email from an "Accessibility Intern" at http://www.accessibleunited.org, complaining that one of my blog posts linked to Wikipedia, which (the intern claimed) is not accessible to disabled people.

The email suggested that I instead link to a different website that has a page on the same topic.

The site -- accessibilityunited.org -- was registered on GoDaddy in mid-June, 2017. It's new. As you might guess, WHOIS information is opaque.

My paranoid mind :-) sees two possible reasons for the email I received:

* A subtle way to generate backlinks for the site that the Accessibility Intern recommended. Maybe an SEO firm is hiding behind the facade of a do-good organization that they created for this purpose. (This happens in politics all the time).

* A subtle way to set me up for an ADA lawsuit, claiming my website is not accessible to the disabled. Unfortunately I have seen bottom-feeding law firms (I do not judge, and I am not bitter that they are besmirching the reputation of a profession of which I am a member) make a killing this way.

Web searches revealed nothing about accessibilityunited.org except that it appears to live on shared hosting at Hurricane Electric.

So. Has anyone else seen these emails? Does anyone else have insight into what might be happening here?