In 2016, the ADA began to include websites in compliance requirements. ADA compliance is meant to ensure that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as anyone else... This means that your website needs to be accessible to people who have disabilities that affect their hearing, vision, or physical capacities. Specifically, Title Ill of the ADA prohibits discrimination based on disability in a place of public accommodation, including airports, movie theatres, schools, restaurants, and office buildings. All public places and privately-owned commercial facilities must also comply with ADA standards.
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WHAT IS ADA COMPLIANCE FOR WEBSITES?
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200% increase in lawsuits and demand letters from 2017 to 2018
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DOJ affirms ADA applies to websites by November 2018
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2019 seems like it's going to triple 2018
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Over 150,000 demand letters served to businesses since 2017
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93% of demand letters settle outside of court for $20,000 – $150,000 on average
WHY DO YOU NEED ADA COMPLIANCE?
There are many risks of not having an ADA compliant website. The biggest risk, however, is a potential lawsuit from a plaintiff with a disability that claims they do not have adequate access to the content on your website. This may be a potential customer with a disability that simply cannot access or purchase the goods and services on an eCommerce website, a disabled student looking to apply to a university online, or a person with a disability that’s interested in filling out a job application online.
Most of the ADA website compliance lawsuits that we’ve seen thus far have fallen under one of these categories. If a person is unable to apply for employment or enrolment at a university online due to their disability, that person would have a strong case for discrimination in court.
The Upward Trend of ADA Website Compliance Lawsuits I in 2019, according to an analysis by international legal firm Seyfarth Shaw, web accessibility federal lawsuits hit record numbers, with 11,053 suits filed in federal court, an 8.8°/o increase from 2018. This increase may be in response to a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which reversed a federal judge’s 2017 dismissal of a case against Domino’s Pizza. A man who is blind complained that he was unable to use Domino’s website or mobile app because neither was accessible. This reversal might have triggered more plaintiffs to launch web accessibility lawsuits.
Over the years, people have filed web accessibility lawsuits over Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act violations. Section 508 federal departments and agencies ensure ICT (information and communication technology) they use is accessible. People have taken legal action against both the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security over Section 508 violations.
What is the Benefit?
There are many BENEFITS to making your website ADA compliant. If you’re wondering if it’s worth
looking into, these advantages of doing so may convince you.
How Does Our SOLUTION WORK?
With the Digital Design Solutions ADA Compliance Interface
FIRST, we will review your site to assess your level of ADA compliance. SECOND, we will apply your site’s temporary fixes as needed. NEXT, we will apply comprehensive fixes to your site and create an easily identifiable user interface on your site which will allow disabled visitors to easily customize your site to their individual needs. Our interface is designed to cover all accessibility requirements relating to the User Interface and will not change the look and feel of the website design. Our solution allows users with visual or physical impairments to instantly match your website’s design to their specific individual needs. From colors and sizes for fonts to spacing and emphasis on titles. We even address GIF and animation controls for seizure disorders. With the Digital Design Solutions ADA Compliance Interface, everything is covered.
How does our solution work? Automatically.
Personal UI & Design
adjustments powered
by an interface
Content & Display
Color & Contrast
Live Dictionary
Stop Animations
Mute Sounds
Focus & Emphasis
How we protect you from litigation including
Click on the regulation for details
WCAG 2.1 ADA Title III Section 508 EAA/EN 301549
Digital Design Solutions protects your company from ADA compliance litigation through a multi-tiered approach that includes rigorous auditing of your existing site, painstakingly identifying any ADA compliance issues. This is then coupled with our comprehensive solution that works on the back end of your site on a code level, to modify all related aspects necessary to drive your compliance.
Once we have identified and corrected your existing compliance issues, we then use our AI technology, which continually scans the ADA compliant site for new or updated regulations they have posted. That same AI capability scans your site on a daily basis, updating new items as Instagram and Facebook Feeds or newly added content or images, to ensure your compliance. These daily scans are logged in an auditable, timestamped log report that is provided to you anytime we make changes to your site.
For Epileptics
Stop Animations
Instantly freeze all animations, GIFs, and flashing images
For the Motor Impaired
Virtual Keyboard
An on-screen keyboard for people who can’t use a mouse
For Cognitive Disorders
Online Dictionary
Allows searching for phrases, abbreviations, and concepts
For the Motor Impaired
Quick Navigation
Let’s users reach any important page with a single click
WCAG 2.1 & ADA Compliance
Certification & Statement
Daily Compliance Monitoring
Monthly Compliance Auditing
LET’S GET STARTED LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT ADA COMPLIANCE SOLUTION?
Blindness
Blindness | Screen-reader Optimization
Blind people rely on screen readers to get around online, but most websites lack alternative texts for images. The “alternative text” functions use machine learning to scan, analyze, and interpret every element on a page the same way that sighted users do. Then, it uses ARIA attributes and various behavior adjustments to provide full context to screen readers, allowing blind users to navigate and browse through sites accurately.
Dropdown menus, forms, pop-ups, icons, and buttons are all included in the process. Additionally, our interface uses his computer vision to provide accurate descriptions for images.
Motor Impairment
Motor Impaired | Keyboard Navigation Optimization
Users with motor disabilities, muscle weakness, arthritis, or injuries causing difficulty directing and clicking with a mouse rely solely on a keyboard to operate websites.
The virtual keyboard function on the top right of the screen displays an on-screen keyboard for people who cannot use a mouse.
The contextual understanding AI engine automatically makes the necessary changes on a code level, enabling users to navigate the entire site using just the keyboard. By using the tab key, the arrow keys, the ESC key, and various letter keys, users without a mouse can handle everything from pop-ups to forms, and drop-down menus to buttons.
Cognitive Disorders
Online Dictionary
Users with cognitive disorders may find it hard to comprehend certain phrases, language, or slang. Our interface’s online dictionary provides instant meaning to these challenges.
Color Blindness
Color Blind | Color and Display Adjustments
The second group of actions on the interface is relating to the colorization of your website. People with various degrees of color blindness may not be able to see your buttons or links due to their color, people with light sensitivity may not be able to surf websites with white backgrounds, and more.
Macular Degeneration
Macular Degeneration | Content Adjustments
The first group of actions in our interface enables users to adjust how the content on your side is displayed, so it is as reasonable as possible to their particular disability. Users with visual impairments like blurred vision or aging sight utilize this group the most.
This section adjustments include fonts, readable font, emphasize title, emphasize links, tax magnifier, content scaling, text to align with the right | left | center | justified, adjust word spacing, adjust letter spacing and adjust line-height.
Epilepsy
Epilepsy | Stop Animations
For people with photosensitive epilepsy, the Internet is a minefield, because the next webpage could have a flashing GIF or animation that triggers a seizure.
Our assessability interface includes a dedicated button labeled stop animations which immediately freezes any flashing GIFs, animations, videos, or patterns that could affect people with photosensitive epilepsy.
Blurred Vision
Blurred Vision | Content Adjustments
The first group of actions in our interface enables users to adjust how the content on your side is displayed, so it is as reasonable as possible to their particular disability.
Users with visual impairments like blurred vision or aging sight utilize this group the most.
This section adjustments include fonts, readable font, emphasize title, emphasize links, tax magnifier, content scaling, text to align with the right | left | center | justified, adjust word spacing, adjust letter spacing and adjust line-height.
Old Age
Old Age | Content Adjustments
The first group of actions in our interface enables users to adjust how the content on your side is displayed, so it is as reasonable as possible to their particular disability.
Users with visual impairments like blurred vision or aging sight utilize this group the most.
This section adjustments include fonts, readable font, emphasize title, emphasize links, tax magnifier, content scaling, text to align with the right | left | center | justified, adjust word spacing, adjust letter spacing and adjust line-height.
Cataract
Cataract | UI and Design Adjustments
The first group of actions in our interface enables users to adjust how the content on your side is displayed, so it is as reasonable as possible to their particular disability.
Users with visual impairments like blurred vision or aging sight utilize this group the most.
This section adjustments include fonts, readable font, emphasize title, emphasize links, tax magnifier, content scaling, text to align with the right | left | center | justified, adjust word spacing, adjust letter spacing and adjust line-height.
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