Ebook: ADA Compliancy and Your Website

Ensuring that people with disabilities have full access to your website opens the door to a wider audience.

Two words that make everyone in your organization cringe, from the CEO on down to the latest hire: federal regulations. These are the regulations that can permeate every level and range from complicated to downright confounding. But many are designed to be helpful, to make things better, and though the actual regulations may require a translator to fully comprehend, in the end, someone or something benefits.

That is the goal behind the regulations currently being developed by the federal government regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the effort to create a world of websites that are ADA compliant, meaning that everyone including people with disabilities has equal accessibility to online resources. It is projected that the U.S. Department of Justice will complete these regulations by 2018. Subsequent enforcement, it has been said, will be on “a case by case basis.”

Will these regulations be issued in time to meet the government’s self-imposed deadline? We don’t know. Should you just wait and see?

No.

Why not? Because compliancy in many cases will not be extraordinarily difficult. New websites can be designed with ADA compliancy in mind, while current websites can be adjusted and renovated. Granted, there is no single button that a web designer can push to suddenly transform a website into one that is fully compliant. But there are different levels of compliancy.

Deciding which level is right for your website – and your brand – as well as how to reach it, will require time. Patience. Guidance. And experience. The more a design team works with ADA requirements, the more the regulations become second nature.

We have been examining these requirements and monitoring their development. And while every detail isn’t yet set in code, we have compiled a few things you can start thinking about regarding your website and its future ADA compliancy….

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