People waste so much money with website accessibility, and the reason they waste money is because they don’t understand what they are buying and what they need. So those are two essentials when you are in the marketplace. And yet people are they feel a sense of urgency to do something and they end up … Read more
There are many big organizations that struggle with accessibility and it’s not for a lack of resources. Actually, too many resources can get in the way. And so on the screen with me, I have a document where I have bullet points on the struggles that many big companies have with website accessibility. Or it … Read more
When buyers are evaluating accessibility services, they have an important decision to make. But it’s a really hard decision on who to choose. And many people let price play too much of a factor in who they choose. And that’s not to say that the highest price is the best or the lowest price is … Read more
A common path to choosing an accessibility provider is that someone is sued. They research three to five providers and then they book sales calls or sales demos with each of those providers. And then they learn about accessibility and how it relates to their specific situation as they are going through these sales demos. … Read more
Sharing this split screen with me is a document with a heading, ADA website compliance timeline. And so here are some time ranges that you can expect when trying to make your website accessible and follow best practices for ADA compliance. First you need to select a vendor and contract with that vendor. Sometimes this … Read more
I have come across multiple defense law firms that offer a quote unquote ADA website audit, and I highly recommend that you do not go through a defense law firm for an audit. While they may be familiar with the plaintiff’s law firms that they deal with, they do not understand accessibility and they are … Read more
You can now go through Accessible.org for both audit and remediation services, and I think this is extremely helpful because it consolidates all of your energy and efforts into one place, one transaction. Whereas, if you go to most other accessibility providers, they will not remediate your website. So, they will provide you an audit, … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me is a document with information on the cost of website accessibility services and this is for if you go through me at accessible.org. So the starting price for an audit is typically $3,500 and then the range usually goes up to $7,500. It’s not to say that that price … Read more
Sharing the split screen with me, I have a document headlined by audit pros and cons. So in this video, we will go through the pros and the cons of manual website accessibility audits, which there are no automated audits, but just for clarification, this is for a full manual audit, and we will go … Read more
You do not need to be an accessibility expert to make your website significantly more accessible. And this does not diminish the skills, knowledge, and expertise that go into becoming an accessibility expert. You are not going to replace hundreds if not thousands of hours of education and experience. But what you can do is … Read more
This recording is a continuation of my previous video where I explained why you would never want to have a separate or alternative version of their website even if that separate version is accessible and I will link to that video below. But in this video, I am on a separate version of the web- … Read more
Developer: I think that companies that sell accessibility solutions try to frame accessibility as a black box that’s impossible to understand. But I believe the concepts are not that difficult if you take the time to learn them. Kris: Exactly, exactly. This clip is so good. I had to share it. It’s from- I’m screen … Read more
Welcome to my presentation titled Why Is The Market So Confusing? The subtitle is the ADA Book Buyer’s Guide to Website Accessibility Products and Services. I’m recording this as a PowerPoint, and I am on video in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. And you may also hear my dog snoring in the background. … Read more
The terms VPAT and ACR are commonly used interchangeably but they are different. So the difference lies in that we use the VPAT to create the ACR. So a VPAT is a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, the operative word being template. We use this template and once it’s filled out, we have an Accessibility Conformance … Read more
Accessibility training is extremely important. Once you have your personnel – so your employees, your staff, your contractors – once you have them trained in accessibility, it’s going to dramatically lower your costs and then, two, it’s going to enable you to produce much more accessible digital experiences out-of-the-box. And this will come relatively quickly … Read more
Differentiating between website accessibility companies can be difficult so let’s run through a few of the categories. In one category we have the largest accessibility companies. We have Level Access, The Paciello Group, and we have Deque. And these are all legitimate providers. And at the core of their offering will be a manual audit … Read more
Squarespace has taken the wrong approach to accessibility. And their stance on accessibility can be condensed down into a single blog post that was coincidentally updated just two days ago on November 28th. And so I’m on this post right now and I’ll link to it in the description. And in the frequently asked questions … Read more
I really like what Wix is doing with their accessibility. They are doing what any website builder platform should do and improve the out-of-the-box accessibility of their website builder. What I found problematic was after I made the video I kept looking at Wix’s website and I discovered that they offered accessibility certification. And on … Read more
I recently discovered that there is an entire marketplace on Fiverr for digital accessibility services. So there are audits being offered, remediation services are being offered, I even saw that VPAT- a VPAT service is being offered. And I wouldn’t use any of the gigs from Fiverr and so here is why. One, the majority … Read more
There are no instant solutions “solutions” for website accessibility. These are usually overlay widgets. There is no such thing as a widget that can make your website accessible. There are any number of reasons they fail, they don’t work, it’s a waste of money – don’t get one. You might be lured by promises of … Read more
When you are purchasing accessibility services it’s very important to understand what you are being sold and what you actually need. So keep the focus in on we want to make our digital asset accessible, how do we do that? Well first you have to find the accessibility issues that exist and then you have … Read more
if a vendor does not offer any manual services for website accessibility, then they are only going to offer marginal benefit in making your website accessible. And I’ve seen this happen too many times where people pay for these vendors and they think that they’re getting a service, a professional service but they’re not. What … Read more
Certification for ADA compliance as it relates to websites and digital assets is unavailable because there are no governing bodies or entities licensed by governing bodies that are able to issue that certification. So what we have to look to is a different type of certification and there are two primary ways to do this. … Read more
$12,500 if I had to name one price for both an audit and remediation under WCAG 2.1 conformance level AA. Now what goes into this price quote? Well we first arere going to look at the type of digital asset. In this case it’s a website so then we’re going to look at the complexity … Read more