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Website Accessibility and ADA Compliant Web Design

Want a website that is accessible according to the latest ADA rules and regulations to serve people with disabilities?

What Is ADA and Why Is It Important to Have an Accessible Website?

The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA, announced websites are public accommodations just like any common physical place such as retail stores, movie theaters, parking lots, and so on.

It’s our moral obligation to make the web accessible for people with disabilities and service them as well as we do anyone else.

It’s not just that we could expand our reach and market share from competitors who don’t serve disabled people but it can also save us a lot of money from pricey ADA lawsuits and the hassle of dealing with lawyers and demand letters.

How Much Could I Lose by Not Having an ADA Friendly Website?

Accessibility lawsuits and demand letters are on the rise.

Is your website in compliance?

ADA cases are not just expensive but also time-consuming. In addition, who wants to spend time with lawyers and demand letters instead of their families?

Sometimes, the legal fees to represent your business can easily exceed thousands of dollars. If you get a good attorney and get lucky, your settlement fees can also cost you tens of thousands of dollars. The ADA certification that you most likely will need to provide to prove your site is corrected, can also cost you thousands depending on the size of your website.

Besides the negative financial impact that a lawsuit can bring to you, it can also damage the online reputation of your business. People might publicly complain about your business practices and write bad reviews to express their frustration.

Need any more reason to get an accessible website?

In addition, an accessible website can also bring in extra revenue by reaching the disabled population who are not served by your competitors. Who doesn’t want to gain more market share, right?

Who Are the Top Targets of ADA Lawsuits and Demand Letters?

There are no clear regulations about what websites need to be accessible but there are common industries and company sizes who are targeted more often than others. Here are a few examples.

Companies with over 15 employees
Government agencies and anyone who receives federal funds
Healthcare providers, hospitals, and medical-related businesses
Educational institutes and online learning systems
Ecommerce websites and online stores

If your industry is not described above, it doesn’t mean your business is safe from ADA cases. Technically, anyone can sue anyone but attorneys mostly target more established organizations.

ADA Friendly Web Design and Website Development Services

There are a lot of regulations and changes are hard to monitor

Are you willing to take the risk?

The idea of website compliance services may be new to you but it will become a standard soon just like content-encryption security with SSL or SEO for a successful lead generation website. I would risk to say, it most likely will become a Google ranking factor like page speed, bounce rates, readability, and UX. When people first started to build houses, there were no regulations. But now there are thousands of building codes you need to deal with, even if all you wanted to do is add a door or electrical outlet. Businesses similarly have to incorporate best practices that meet the latest HIPAA, FINRA, GDPI, PCI, and other state and local regulations.

How to Make a Website Accessible

There are a lot of requirements you need to be aware of when you make your website ADA compliance. We list some of the most important elements you need to watch when working on your website.

Image ALT texts should be descriptive enough for visually impaired people to understand
Link titles also need to be detailed enough to be able to know where the link takes the visitor
The navigation, especially hamburger menus need to be useful for everyone
The contrast of text on images need to be large enough to be able to easily read
Fast animations and auto-play videos can cause seizure, especially for people with epilepsy

It’s not a one time, get done job. It requires ongoing monitoring and maintenance by knowledgeable staff to keep your site accessible forever and ever.

Ongoing Website Compliance Monitoring Services

It’s a lot of work but can be automated. Want to know how?

AI Powered Image Recognition Technology to Automate Your ADA Compliance Efforts

We automatically provide accurate and elaborate alternative text to any image without Alt tags, this aids visually impaired user with a screen-reader when navigating your site.

Want an Update and Human Error Safe Accessible Website for Ever and Forever?

Every 24 hours, our AI scans for new and revised content to fix. Ensuring new updates are being remediated to compliance instantly.

Quarterly Manual ADA Audit Services to Ensure Continued Accessibility

Ensuring new updates are being remediated to compliance.

Accessibility Consulting Services to Guide Your Team

Our team offers comprehensive web accessibility consulting, remediation services, and leadership throughout the design of your site.

Are Automated ADA Tools Safe to Use?

There are many automated ADA tools and accessibility plugins, even for WordPress websites. Many of these tools use page titles and image file names to generate image ALT text or link titles. These tools can generate the wrong information if the image file name is img123.jpg or the page titles is “default page title” that some web design tools generate and then are overlooked by the “developer”. Yes, we have seen things like this before.

We are very proud of our AI-driven, intelligent tool that analyzing the surrounding of images and analysis what is on the image, to display the correct image ALT text.

Without a tool like ours, your ADA compliance efforts would risk human errors, incur real hassle, and be a huge time investment.

Have More Questions?

Read Our FAQs below or click to talk to an ADA consultant.

Would ADA Updates Hurt My SEO and Website Ranking?

Most, traditional ADA-related websites updates and changes can negatively affect your SEO but we have a solution for that.

Our session-based, intelligent accessibility solution can be activated manually as needed. It will change the image ALT text and link titles only on your computer. Google will see the same, optimized text content that your SEO agency wrote for you.

Our AI-driven ADA tool will automatically rewrite content, e.g. image ALT text according to the surroundings of the graphic and the intelligent image identification tool will analyze what is on the image.

In some cases, we need to further adjust the website manually but our state-of-the-art automated tool can be very helpful for businesses with thousands of pages and organizations who take their content marketing seriously and produce a large amount of content on an ongoing basis.

Still Have Questions?

Read Our FAQs below or click to talk to an ADA specialist.

Frequently Asked Website Accessibility / ADA Questions

Can My Non-Accessible Website Put My Business At Risk of Lawsuits?

Suing website owners over Website ADA Compliance violations is just a “business” for many attorneys. Every day, these lawyers are hunting for websites like yours — sites that are not ADA compliant — that they can threaten to sue for tens of thousands of dollars.

Can an ADA Compliant Website Bring in More Business?

As many as 20% of the US population have some sort of disability which prevents them from using your website the way you imagine most users do.

Whether their disability is with their vision, their hearing, their motor skills, or something else, they are limited to learn about your business, enjoy your content, or buy your products or services.

Your compliant website can help you serve more people and expand your market share from other businesses who don’t serve everyone.

Will the ADA tool negatively affect my SEO?

No, our tool provides session based ADA friendly content on demand. The user’s screen reader device will activate the tool but the website visitor can also control the website accessibility manually. Your website content, image ALT text, link descriptions won’t be changed for the average visitor.

Google and other search engines will crawl the same information that any standard website visitor would see.

Have any of your ADA monitoring customers ever been sued or lost a case?

So far, none of our clients who have implemented this tool before receiving a demand letter has lost a lawsuit.

Would manual ADA maintenance solutions be safer than our automated AI solution?

Manual ADA compliance solutions are very slow, time consuming, and expensive. Our AI powered software has one of the most advances image recognition tools which will allow you to have an accessible website that will be readable by most disabled individuals.

We also recommend periodic auditing to improve on items that the automated AI tool might not alter and that your legal team requests.

Worried About ADA Compliance or Just Want Us to Analyze Your Website?

Call 919-341-8901 or request a free ADA audit and complimentary consultation now!

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