ADA Compliant Website

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ADA Compliant Website
5 Things You Must Do To Have An ADA Compliant
Website 1. Partner with An ADA Website Compliance
Agency
Mention ADA compliance to most web developers and
youll probably encounter a blank stare or two.
First and foremost, find a developer familiar
with the web platform or framework that your
website uses and ask about how their development
and design workflow addresses accessibility and
compliance. If they tell you that they understand
all of the complexities of building a compliant
website, we highly recommend auditing them by
using a company that specializes in website
accessibility. 2. Audit Your Website Code The
judicious next step is to run a technological
audit on your website. The audit will scan your
site and identify all the elements and code that
does not currently meet web accessibility
standards for ADA compliance. The results will
give you an itemized list of the work required so
that you can set your budget properly. Each site
configuration has varying levels of remediation
difficulty. Your ADA audit cost could range
broadly from hundreds of dollars for a basic
remediation to tens of thousands for a full site
audit and remediation.
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3. Determine Your Compliance Scope of Work At
this point, your developer or design agency can
use the audit report to gauge the overall level
of effort it will take to remediate the website
and provide an estimate. Your developer will sit
down and work out a budget, timelines, proposed
deliverables, and some compliance expectation
management. If the task list is so vast that
this compliance approach is not feasible for your
company. At the very least, youll understand
where you sit with ADA website compliance and can
plan to address it soon. Some critical
compliance work is better than no changes at
all. For others, full ADA compliance and
remediation is a must, because of company size,
sales strategy, audience or legal counsel.
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• Put in The Work
• Once the project has been properly road mapped,
  its time to get to work remediating your
  website. Your developer will begin to work
  through the various compliance deliverables and
  communicate how these changes will positively
  affect your sites visitors experience. Below are
  some common ADA issues and the resolutions
• The images on your site must have alt. text tags
  associated with them in the event they do not
  render on a device or the user is visually
  disabled and is unable to see the image. The
  alternative text will clearly describe what that
  element is for a visitors screen reader. Without
  that tag, screen readers will not understand
  what information is being presented.
• If the chosen colors on your site for essential
  elements, like buttons or icons, do not have
  enough contrast, then it is hard for some
  impaired visitors to discern what the buttons are
  and what they do.
• If lists or forms on your website do not have
  proper labels, this makes it impossible for
  screen readers to translate them for visually
  impaired visitors. A good example is a shipping
  and billing information form for an e-commerce
  site.
• Stay Up-To-Date on Compliance Standards
  Post-Launch
• ADA website compliance is not a one and done
  task. Compliance standards change and must be
  followed and will evolve just as your website
  grows and changes. There are guidelines and
  regulations all website owner must adhere to. It
  is generally not difficult, but often requires
  web developers to change their workflows. For
  example, loading images up to your e-commerce
  site will always need the alt tags mentioned
  above.
• ADA website compliance has numerous benefits. It
  gives your website a competitive advantage and
  may lead to more transactions, offers a better
  overall experience across browsers, provides
  valuable information for Google, Bing and other
  search engine results, helps the site reach a
  wider audience, reduces your SEO and PPC spend
  and the likelihood of expensive ADA litigation.
• Questions about ADA website compliance? Need to
  remediate your businesss website? ADA Site
• Compliance is here to help!

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