Courts and commentators have used this term, sometimes critically, to describe cases where a plaintiff appears to file complaints in volume as part of a repeated pattern rather than in response to a genuinely intended visit or purchase, and some courts have scrutinized standing in these cases more closely as a result.
Regardless of a given plaintiff’s individual circumstances, the underlying accessibility barriers described in these suits are frequently real and verifiable; the volume of filings reflects how common genuine WCAG failures still are across the web, not that the barriers themselves are typically fabricated.