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Is Your Website ADA Accessible?
Empower your web visitors and organizations to navigate your website with ease.
Accessibility: What ADA Accessibility Is and Why It Matters
Guidelines for web accessibility governing the internet throughout a majority of the globe are based upon the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 AA (WCAG 2.0 AA). WCAG 2.0 AA is the compliance standard for global regulations, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
These guidelines address what web accessibility looks like functionally, even though these guidelines do not provide specific processes or practices. The reality is that one solution does not fit every situation because of the complexity and diversity of the web. Still, that does not mean best practices do not exist. Common or helpful hints contribute to making the implementation of web accessibility easier for everyone.
The W3C process contributed to the development of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the cooperation of a global network of individuals and organizations. The goal is to provide a single shared web content accessibility standard for individuals, organizations, and governments, both locally and internationally.
What is web content? Essentially, it is the information found on a web page or application. That can include both natural information, like images, text, or even sounds and the code defining the presentation and structure of the page itself. Part of this journey is making web content more accessible, especially for those individuals who have disabilities.
Accessibility can also impact how users navigate through your website, how they comprehend the content, the usability of the site, and whether it is easy to input data where necessary. Using this checklist, you can review your site for the essential items in each of these areas. Test your site to find out how it stands up. We provide hints to assist you during this process, thus allowing you to get an accurate picture of your site’s accessibility strengths and weaknesses.
We also provide a chart outlining ADA compliance on 3 levels. While most businesses reach a Level AA, companies dealing with a government might need to reach a higher level to maintain compliance.
ADA Compliance Website Remediation
Our team of developers will evaluate your accessibility within your organizations website, by auditing the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) set forth by the American Disabilities Act.
The importance of ADA website compliance and the financial impact of non-compliance have continued to significantly increase across all business and service sectors in the last decade. With almost all information accessible via the internet, people with disabilities, reduced vision and fine motor skill challenges are increasingly at a disadvantage of proper use of websites due to the lack of ADA accessibility internet wide. Being ADA compliant not only helps your organization to help avoid issues, but it also opens doors to persons with disabilities to utilize your website with ease of navigation.
Getting To Know Your Business
Our audit will answer many of the questions below. By auditing your website, we can get better insight to how a visitor interacts with your site. People with disabilities use the web and applications in 5 major categories; Visual, Audio, Motor, Speech and Cognitive. With assistive technology combined with a ADA accessible site, means that any of the variations above, will be accessible to the user, regardless of need. Removing the extra barriers one may face allows anyone on your site to access the same information.
- Are you in a reactive position facing an existing legal action or avoiding one?
- Do you understand the risks and solutions available to you?
- Perform an Automated and Manual Website Audit
- How old is your website?
- How many unique pages/layouts exist?
- How many 3rd Party Integrations need to be replaced or remediated?
- Will a complete revamp be necessary or just internal repairs?
- How many forms are active on the site?
- Is registration to use the site required?
- Do you have a checkout/shopping feature?
- Are there any real-time or interactive elements on the site?
- How many images are on the site without ALT text?
- Is there any media requiring transcription or closed captioning?
- How many PDF’s exist on the site requiring conversion to web pages?
Level A conformity has minimal effect, but also minimal impact. While WCAG 2.0 Level A allows screen readers to more effectively scan a site, it will not make your site compliant to the current standards the DOJ or lawyers want to see.
Level AA is a happy medium that most businesses currently strive for. Level AA conformance satisfies all Level A criteria and more, while still allowing for more flexible design choices, making this level not too light but not too restrictive in its effect on your site design. This is the most popular level of conformance most projects strive for.
Level AAA captures all conformance factors at the highest level. While this is the most comprehensive level of website conformance, it is also the most restrictive on key interactive elements which can contribute to design and functionality of your site.
*This level most often applies to Government, Military, medical, Legal, Education, Banking and Assisstive Technology Industries.
LEVEL A
*$950
LEVEL A
*$1150
LEVEL A
*$1450
LEVEL A
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LEVEL AA
*$1350
LEVEL AA
*$1550
LEVEL AA
*$1850
LEVEL AA
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*Cost based on individual website, your account manager will provide you a one time fee cost quote.
Level AAA
Premium Solution
Full remediation
Auto widget + manual Audit and full remediation process for All sized websites.
WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA, Section 508, EN 301549, BITV, RGAA, SI 5568, Stanca Act, JIS
*This level most often applies to Government, Military, medical, Legal, Education, Banking and Assisstive Technology Industries.
Sample Documents
The most common ADA violations are easily remediated by professional and cost thousands less than a fine or court fees. Why are fines so costly? The continued violation of ADA compliance has risen 300% in the last decade. Law firms have targeted businesses and regardless of the intent, laws are more favorable when no steps to remediation have been attempted.
Below find a sample ADA letter sent to a client from a law firm as well as a sample report after remediation has been completed.
Sample Documents
- Step-1 Book an appointment for a short call to gather info and discuss pricing
- Step-2 We will perform the Website Audit and finalize your quote.
- Step-3 We will schedule your ADA Compliance work
- Step- Upon completion of ADA compliance we will add the ADA logo to your website and provide you a checklist of completed task for your records.