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Taking care of web accessibility is de-facto in the world of web design. Accessibility is ease to reach or access and utilize, websites can be tested with an ADA compliance checker. Web accessibility, on the same note, means making your web pages accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities, specifically those with visual impairments. The need to ensure that your website is accessible and ADA compliant to the disabled has been augmented by legal action taken by the Department of Justice, individual law firms and advocacy groups. It is guesstimated that in 2017 law firms focused on this issue of ADA compliance, will issue over 40,000 demand letters to website owners of US individuals and companies requesting upfront settlement dollars in the amount of $6,500 - $20,000.
Below is a short list of things you can do to ensure that the pages of your website are accessible, this is not an inclusive list.
Take care for those who are not visually perfect. Your choice of color scheme may not be clear to them so choosing an alternate, high contrast CSS document will be an good option. According to a study by National Organization on Disability in 2001 on growing percentage of disables using internet shows that: In December 1998 7% of adults with disabilities used the Internet at home, compared to about 26% of adults without disabilities, a gap of 19 percentage points. In that 2.5 year period, the rate of home Internet use increased by more than 400% among persons with disabilities (from 7% to 38%). In May-June of 2001 38% of adults with disabilities used the Internet at home, compared to about 56% of adults without disabilities, a gap of 18 percentage points. This increasing percentage is sure to attain new height in near future and overlooking to this number will be hurting your business. We recently tested over 50 websites with a powerful ADA website compliance testing tool, AuditGenie.com, and determined that the majority of errors that could lead to a potential lawsuit against the website owner could be corrected without altering the look and feel of the website. With legal demand letters threatening payment of $6,500 to $20,000, it would be in the website owner/companies best interest to spend a few dollars and correct these ADA compliance errors. For more information please write to [email protected]
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