Following a 2016 ruling against the University of California Berkeley, the United States Department of Justice pointed to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 AA) as the standard for an ADA compliant website.
ADA Web Works will apply the WCAG’s exhaustive guidelines to your existing website, resolving errors and violations. Upon completion of our work, we will mail a signed certificate of compliance. We back up our work by handling or assisting with any legal inquiries for the duration of the relevance of the completed work.
The WCAG guidelines are organized into four principles:
- Perceivable: Information and user interface (UI) components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive:
- This means that users must be able to perceive the information being presented (it cannot be invisible to all of their senses).
- Operable: UI components and navigation must be operable.
- This means that users must be able to operate the interface (the interface cannot require interaction that a user cannot perform).
- Understandable: Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
- This means that users must be able to understand the information as well as the operation of the UI (the content or operation cannot be beyond their understanding).
- Robust: Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
- This means that users must be able to access the content as technologies advance (as technologies and user agents evolve, the content should remain accessible).
Each of these principles, along with their specific guidelines, will be used to make adjustments on your website.
We offer both one-time compliance corrections, as well as ongoing scanning and remediation.