kris One important distinction to make is that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG are not the law. And they never are. They may be adopted or incorporated into the law but they are not the law itself. And specifically when it comes to the American Disabilities Act, compliance- the compliance standard is meaningful access, … Read more
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability – this is a federal law. The Unruh Civil Rights Act is a state law, the California State law that prohibits discrimination generally. And one of the demographics predict protected is people with disabilities. So you can’t discriminate against … Read more
A great way to reduce your risk – and this is something I recommend in The ADA Book – but a great starting point to reducing your risk of website accessibility litigation is to run a WAVE scan on all of the most important pages on your website. So whether that’s five or seven, maybe … Read more
There are plugins that can be helpful in making your website accessible. And some can even add benefit as options- having accessibility options available on your website, but they don’t make your website accessible or what many people are looking, for ADA compliant. Although we don’t know what ADA compliance exactly is when it comes … Read more
Many people ask to see examples of accessible websites. And the reason why examples aren’t relevant is because an accessible website can look like any other. You can go to Walmart.com, Target.com, many of these main all of these different retail websites are already accessible. There might be a few issues but for the most … Read more