Alongside me on the screen is a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet contains my WCAG 2.1 AA checklist. So just in and of itself, the spreadsheet provides value because it’s dynamic in that you can sort through the different columns and adjust the display in how you would like. But I’ve added a few additional columns … Read more
I received an email from someone asking about a freelance service, and the service promised to manually go through his website and fix accessibility issues and that each page would pass a WAVE and an Axe scan. In my reply, one of the things I wrote back is to keep in mind that you can … Read more
There is still confusion when it comes to website accessibility and what can be done through automation. So let’s start with all work must be performed manually, and that is the case when we are auditing a website, so finding accessibility issues and remediating a website, fixing accessibility issues. And we can’t combine automation with … Read more
The WordPress theme I use to create new websites is GeneratePress. And it’s not so much a theme as it is a framework. But it’s important to know that the accessibility isn’t pristine. And all you have to do is go to the site library and look through the various templates that you can use … Read more
I am screen recording the homepage of an apartment website. And the reason I’m doing so is because they actually have a separate version of the website for people with disabilities. This is a worst practice for both website accessibility and ADA compliance. At the very top of the website, there’s a small blue banner … Read more
Most website accessibility litigation ends up being settled. And the reason why is it can be very expensive to defend against these claims. And so what happens is most plaintiffs’ law firms will offer an amount just low enough to entice the respondent, the people defending against these claims to take the settlement rather … Read more
I am screen-recording the silktide.com accessibility sales page. And specifically, I’m looking at the section titled How effective is automated web accessibility testing? And the reason I’m recording this video is because I want to highlight the difference between the perception that can be created from a sales page versus reality. So it starts- let’s … Read more
It’s important to differentiate making your website ADA compliant, preventing litigation and conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG. So full conformance with WCAG and the present version is 2.1. So full conformance with WCAG 2.1 AA is the best practice for making your website what would be considered ADA compliant and also … Read more
A common search in this space is ADA Compliance Checker and ADA Website Compliance Checker. And so the intent here is to find an automated scan that can instantly return accessibility issues on a website. So one thing that’s important, though, is that this isn’t determining- a scan isn’t going to determine whether your website … Read more
Obviously there is training for accessibility and there are other courses on website accessibility, but what I anticipate will make website owners so excited about the ADA compliance course is I created to be an SOP or step by step instructions that you can give to your team and tell them to get started. And … Read more
The ADA compliance course is predicated on preventing litigation. So the course was designed so that a website owner can take this course and give this course to their web team and start finding accessibility issues and fixing those issues and the accessibility issues being the most commonly claimed in litigation. But what is also … Read more
I am screen-recording the homepage of amazon.com. I’m in the bottom left. And I’m going to activate the WAVE browser extension in Firefox. And so instantly I get results on the accessibility issues that WAVE has flagged, and it’s showing 12 errors, two contrast errors, and 225 alerts. And so already that’s very intuitive and … Read more
The ADA Compliance Course is a cheatsheet that website owners can give to their developers to make their websites more accessible and significantly reduce risk of litigation. This course is comprised of 15 lessons and within these lessons there are- an accessibility issue is identified and then there are instructions on how you find that … Read more