Accessibility

What is Accessibility and ADA ?

Accessibility means providing website facilities that make it easier for people with hearing loss, sight loss, or cognitive disabilities to use your site.

ADA stands for Americans with Disabilities Act. The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all other places open to the general public, including digital assets such as websites and applications.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) places several legal duties on businesses to ensure that their services are accessible to people living with disabilities. While most companies immediately think of interventions like disabled ramps and automatic doors, the ADA extends into the digital realm too.

What is WCAG ?

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG for short, are the world's most comprehensive and robust guidelines for making your website accessible to disabled individuals. What's essential to know is that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has endorsed the WCAG resource as the Web accessibility standard for non-discriminatory laws concerning the disabled.

The 4 WCAG principles
WCAG is organized around the four following principles, which are the absolute fundamentals of accessibility on the Web.

• Perceivable
  If the disabled are to gain equal access to the Web, all information and user interface components must be perceived by at least one or more of their senses.
• Operable
  People with disabilities must be able to operate the website, provided with operable interface and navigation components.
• Understandable
  If those with impairments don't understand what your website is offering, then it is inaccessible to them. Users must understand the information as well as the operation of interface components.
• Robust
  When the content is robust, users have more options, and a wide range of disability issues can be answered. Those with disabilities must be able to access the content as technologies advance.

Mitigate Legal Risk

While creating an ADA-compliant website is quite the challenge, it can protect your organization against hefty lawsuits.

According to the law, businesses need to provide "reasonable accessibility" to people with disabilities, often requiring the implementation of a variety of techniques, and taking a huge investment in man hours and budget.

Fortunately, We're Here to Help

Accessibility is good for business, and compliance is required of everyone.

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