What is ADA and WCAG 2.1 and How Does It Affect Businesses?
Richard Uzelac
We Generate Revenue and Sales Success Through Digital Marketing for Home Services Companies, Manufacturers, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Real Estate, Automotive, Real Estate and on and on.
Americans with Disabilities Act & Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), is a 1990 Civil Rights Law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in many areas of public life. Title III of the Act pertains to accessibility for all to service offered by private entities.
Title III of the ADA has been interpreted as pertaining to website accessibility for visitors with vision, hearing, and speech disabilities.
WCAG 2.1
ADA Title III has no detailed compliance goals for website owners to follow. So, the court system has looked to WCAG 2.1, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as the guide for ADA compliance.
If you are sued, you will be sued based on the guidelines stated in WCAG 2.1
Section 508
Section 508 is a separate compliance law which covers government and government contractors’ websites exclusively and has its own guidelines.
ADA Compliance Goals For Websites
ADA Compliance
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ADA Compliance Standards
ADA Compliance
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ADA Compliance Requirements
ADA Compliance Governance
ADA Compliance Transparency
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Regulations
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Policies
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Easy Accessibility
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How ADA and the WCAG 2.1 Affects You and Your Website
Is Your Website ADA Compliant?
Foremost, if your website is not compliant, you could be sued by a visitor or by that visitors’ lawyers. Lawsuits for ADA non-compliance have more than doubled year over year. 2722 ADA Title III lawsuits were filed in 2013, and it is projected that 11,184 will be filed in 2019!
GOMarketing – WCAG & ADA Section 508 Experts
GoMarketing ADA Compliance Services, What We Do:
- 1. Analyze Your Website: GoMarketing will study and analyze your website to see where your ADA issues are on your site.
- 2. Make You Compliant: We will modify your website to make it ADA compliant by meeting WCAG 2.1 guidelines and Section 508 guidelines both. Some of this modification is done by our developers by hand and some of it is controlled by our ADACS program automatically.
- 3. Keep You Compliant: Our ADA Compliance Software (ADACS) monitors changes to your website and to compliance laws. If the laws change, our software and our developers will return your site to compliance very quickly.
“We are very excited to offer this ADA Compliance Service and the ADACS Program to our Clients and new Clients. This software is a gamechanger in the ADA compliance arena that will allow everyone to rest easier knowing the are finally ASA compliant,” said Richard Uzelac, CEO of GoMarketing.
GoMarketing ADACS Program Overview
Our ADACS Program is a Visitor adjustable frontend and backend layer system. 90% of all ADA issues are covered by ADACS and can be implemented by users with disabilities. The users have the control to alter your websites interface for their own unique experience. This allows Users with disabilities to modify what they see and hear on your site to meet their needs. Giving your visitors the ability to tailor your site to their needs will put the power in their hands to have a great experience. You can see this interface by clicking on the Blue Circle Icon with the wheel chair graphic in the lower left corner of www.GoMarketing.com.
GoMarketing ADACS Interface Above
Feel free to try the system out on our own website. Only you will see the changes and adjustments you are making.
Would you like a free demo of our system, call 805-413-7893 to set up a time to do so! We know you will be impressed with the system and be assured you are now ADA Compliant!
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.1
- Provide alternative text for non-text content
- Label all of your form elements
- Add closed captions to the video. Add audio descriptions for animations
- Ensure color contrast meets the minimum threshold.
- Make your link text descriptive.
- Do not use color as the only indication of meaning.
- Make sure your font size is at least 18 px.
- If there is an input error by the user, it must be identifiedand explained in the text.
- You should be able to navigate the whole site using only your keyboard.
- Use flexible time limits for your website, if any, or add an optionfor more time.
- Provide skip navigation links so that users can skiprepetitive content, such as menus, etc.
Types of Disabilities we Cover
- Full or partial blindness (using screen reading software such as NVDA or JAWS).
- Motor disabilities (such as joint injuries, limb amputations and more).
- Parkinson's disease (shaking hands - inability to use the mouse).
- Epilepsy (seizures when flashing animations are running).
- Cognitive disabilities (such as memory disorders, dyslexia, people who've been through a stroke, and more).
- Seniors (With a wide variety of possible disabilities).
- Various visual impairments (such as color blindness, cataracts, glaucoma, and more).
NOTE: This Article was Originally Published on Richard Uzelac's GoMarketing.com website: https://gomarketing.com/services/ada-website-compliance-services/
About the Author: Richard Uzelac
Richard Uzelac: CEO of GoMarketing Inc.
Richard Uzelac Founder and CEO of GoMarketing. Mr. Uzelac started RealtyTech Inc in 2002 and GoMarketing Inc in 2010.
Richard Uzelac’s GoMarketing works with Corporations and Small Businesses to generate online exposure, branding and sales for both E-Commerce and Traditional companies. Uzelac has worked with many companies in many industries including; Home Services Companies (HVAC,Plumbing, Windows, Doors, Flooring, etc), Medical/Health, Manufacturing, Retail, Legal, Financial, Real Estate, Insurance, Travel and many others.
Richard’s expertise is in understanding what his Clients need and providing the best possible solution for those needs, month in and month out.
“My motto when we started is still in effect. We aim to:
Understand: “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway
Who are you and your company? What do you do? Where do you seek change? What are your Goals?
Engage: “There is no development physically, intellectually, or financially without effort, and effort means work.” – Calvin Coolidge
Once we know what you want and need, we go to work! We engage our entire arsenal of Marketing programs to meet and exceed your goals.
Succeed: “People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.” – Earl Nightingale
If you don’t succeed, we don’t succeed! As partners we go to war to meet you success metrics.
Grow: “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
There is only one finish line in life and we all know what that is. So while we are in it, we are in it to not only succeed, but to grow, constantly.
“A little bio can’t tell the whole story, but the key is I will work hard for your success and am confident that whatever business consulting you need, I will be able to create a successful outcome for you and your company,” Richard Uzelac said.
Richard Uzelac is an Emmy award-winning network television graphics designer and producer, for the Winter Olympic Games television broadcast. He went on to become the Sr. Director of Realtor.com, when it was the number one real estate website in the world. Before Realtor.com he was awarded many times as a successful real estate agent and broker.
In his personal life, Richard Uzelac earned these recognitions:
Won the 1998 Sports Emmy for work on the CBS Winter Olympic Games Graphics/Animations as a 3D Animator.
· Won a California State Powerlifting Championship in his weight class.
· Wrestled at Penn State.
· Won a Freestyle Wrestling Tournament at age 45.
· Won a couple of driving championships, set track records in the Porsche Owners Club.
· Raised and Donated to many Veteran’s and Children’s Charities.
Mr. Richard Uzelac is also available as a Technology Speaker, Seminar Provider and Business Consultant. For more information, contact Richard Uzelac at 805.413.7893.
"If you are in need of a new website and IDX, feel free to call me directly to learn about all the new features we are offering. Our Sites are feature filled and are second to none in the USA. Our IDX is also full featured and offered and an average of 50% of the cost of major competitors, " said Richard Uzelac, of RealtyTech.
Richard Uzelac: CEO of RealtyTech Inc.
Richard Uzelac is the President of RealtyTech Inc. a Thousand Oaks, CA Real Estate Technology and Marketing Company. RealtyTech was founded in 2002 and is currently serving thousands of real estate agents nationwide. Many of those clients also receive internet marketing, lead generation from RealtyTech.
"If you are in need of a new website and IDX, feel free to call me directly to learn about all the new features we are offering. Our Sites are feature filled and are second to none in the USA. Our IDX is also full featured and offered and an average of 50% of the cost of our major competitors, " said Richard Uzelac, of RealtyTech. "Our goal is to offer high quality products and services for less to our clients. We strive to offer more for less to develop long standing relatinships with our Clients. This bears out in the loyalty we have with our clients, many of which have been Clients of ours for over ten years," Richard Uzelac added.
Richard Uzelac founded RealtyTech in 2002 after leaving Realtor.com as the Senior Director of Production.
"I really enjoyed working at Homestore (now Move.com) back around 1999. We had a great team and built the Realtor.com into the number one real estate website in the world while I was there. As Senior Director of Production, I was tasked with the Design, Development and User Interface of one of the highest traffic websites in the world. It was a lot of fun, said Richard Uzelac.
Richard Uzelac has a background in Real Estate starting in New Jersey in 1982. He became the #1 Ranked agent for Century 21 in the entire state within three years.
Richard Uzelac is also the CEO of GoMarketing Inc, an internet marketing corporation providing website design/development and Google Adwords campaigns. GoMarketing
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