Is Your Website ADA Compliant? You May Be At $$$Risk$$$!

If you have a website, you NEED to be worried about ADA compliance right now! The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all online companies to have standards in place to make certain their website content is accessible for every user. If your site fails ADA guidelines, you are at massive risk for lawsuits, fines, and lost business!

Crushing Financial Liability for Failure to Have an ADA Compliant Website

You might think we are just here to scare you. Well, yeah…failure to comply is a scary subject. If you do not have an ADA compliant website, you have trouble coming your way. Here’s the low down on why you want to have an ADA compliant website:

• A business can be fined as much as $50,000 for your first ADA violation, and $100,000 thereafter.
• Failure to make ADA websites can open your company to lawsuits. It’s commonplace for aggressive attorneys to search Google for non-compliant companies.
• Other than being forced to comply and redesign a website, which is expensive by itself, you also will have to fork over attorneys’ fees. Those can run you tens of thousands of dollars! Depending on the state you live in, you could be slapped with a $50,000 legal tab. Yikes!
• Beyond regulatory penalties, failing to provide an ADA compliant website to people with disabilities means you are losing business. If all users cannot easily search your website, you may be losing boatloads of sales every month.
• ADA compliance makes it easier for Google to crawl and index your site. This will push it higher in the rankings and get your content in front of more potential clients.
• If a user with a disability cannot uses your form and buy on your site, you are losing money.

How We Will Develop Your ADA Compliant Website

Now you get it. You understand what can happen to your website for failure to comply – it’s going to cost you a ton of money. But the good news is WE can affordably design an ADA compliant website for you quickly.

Here are some specific techniques that WE will use to develop your ADA compliant websites:

• Create alt tags for all images, videos, and audio files: Alt tags let your users with disabilities to read or hear an alternative description of content that they may not be able to view. We craft your alt tags to describe the object itself and the purpose it has on your site.
• Select the right graphics: Your site’s graphics are a huge part of being accessible to every user. When graphics are included, they should not flash more than three times per second, or they can cause a seizure in some users.
• Code with standard HTML tags: For people who use assistive readers, standard HTML tags are a must. All documents should be offered in a text-based format, too.
• Select proper fonts: We will choose fonts for your site that are easy to read. Georgia, Open Sans, and Quicksand are easy for most people to read. We also will use light backgrounds with dark text for the easiest readability.
• Create text transcripts for your audio and video content: A text transcript helps a hearing-impaired user to understand your content that they otherwise could not access.
• Make your site keyboard-and pause-friendly: Your site needs to be able to be navigated by only a keyboard. Not everybody can use a touchscreen or mouse. We will be certain users can pause content and slow down scrolling.
• Identify the language of your site in header code: Making it clear the language the website should be read in helps people who need text readers. Modern text readers identify these codes.
• Provide suggestions and alternatives when there is a user error: Sometimes a user with a disability could encounter an input error because they need to navigate your site differently. The website should automatically provide recommendations to the user about how to navigate toward the desired content.
• Create an organized and consistent layout: Our developers will create links, menus, and buttons that are elegantly organized in a way that is clear and easily navigated by all users throughout your site.

Lastly, once we are done with your ADA compliant website, we will monitor any changes in ADA compliance and make any updates needed. At the end, you will have a fully ADA compliant website that any user can easily use to buy your products and services! And you will no longer be at risk for government penalties.

Contact Us Today

Avoid government and legal penalties for failing to comply with ADA compliance – contact us now! Call us at (213) 842-0774 and we will make your website ADA compliant in no time!