ADA Website Compliance

Compliance does require us to take additional steps and care to ensure your website is accessible as possible. We do offer levels of this service. Included already in our custom website packages - we are mindful of best practices. In a more formal accessibility project, we address deeper adjustments to code and visual presentation. If you’re looking for full compliance including a certificate we can address that too. Contact us for a quote.

Yes, we can perform monthly checks to report any updates you may want to make. Our clients on a Care Plan with support hours can use that time for any updates.

The investment depends on your website’s needs. While we encourage all of our clients to ensure their website is accessible to all, including disabled persons, we understand that sometimes other priorities take precedence.

Look at it this way: Developing with accessibility in mind is a long process and less investment. Retroactive updates are a shorter process and more investment.

Regardless - the cost is much less if you've already made the updates prior to receiving a demand letter where someone has filed a formal complaint.

If we designed the website: Retroactively updating the site for compliance means that we’ll likely be changing elements of the website we already coded and designed and it’d still need to go through the same revision process as if you were developing a new website.

Making the updates along with a new design may take longer, but we’re able to plan and implement it at the same time.

If we didn't design the website: Same as above, but we'll be sorting through someone else's code.

Great question. We recently stopped using this ourselves because we found out they actually do more harm than good. There's a great article about that here if you’re interested in learning more, but generally, it comes down to three things:

1. There is an illusion of fixing some of the problems, but if the widget goes away, the problems remain.
2. They actually prevent disabled people from using their own tech by forcing them to use the widget.
3. The widgets insert third-party scripts, which cause performance issues and security challenges.
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