Website Accessibility Compliance to ADA Regulations

Website Accessibility Compliance to ADA Regulations

Get your website ADA compliant in 10 minutes.

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires all businesses with publicly accessible venues to have special accessibility options for disabled.

For example, you have probably seen special ramps for wheelchairs to gain access to public venues, disabled restrooms and even maybe Braille indented buttons in an elevator. It’s all part of the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA.

Recently, the Supreme Court ruled all businesses required to be ADA compliant must have their websites compliant as well.

And not only them, but any business with 15 employees and up, under the ADA regulation.

Any business at all, even a sole proprietorship, must abide with the Human Rights Act, which stipulates anybody deserves to have equal access rights to public venues. And websites are considered public venues.

All businesses need to be compliant with ADA Guidelines!
This comes as a result of 6 years of aggressive rise in website accessibility lawsuits, from about 4,400 in 2015 to 12,000 in 2019.

One of the most famous ones was a lawsuit against Dominos Pizza. Did you hear about that case?

In 2016, Dominos were sued by Guillermo Robles a blind person that claimed he was not unable to order a pizza online because Domino’s did not design its website or app to be compatible with the software he uses as a blind person to navigate the web. He claimed the company was in violation of the ADA.

In January 2019, The Ninth Circuit ruled in his favor. In October 2019, Domino’s asked the Supreme Court to overrule the January decision. The court denied Domino’s petition and turned down the appeal. Basically, clearing the way for blind people to sue businesses if their websites are not accessible.

Bottom line, all businesses websites must be ADA compliant if they want to avoid prosecution.

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