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ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE FOR YOUR WEBSITE

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ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE FOR YOUR WEBSITE

• A website has to be accessible.
• It must have clear and bright visuals that can be
  easily picked up by software that translates
  content for people with vision or hearing
  problems.
• Its videos should include subtitles for the hard
  of hearing.
• Its keyboard navigation options must be easy
  enough even for those who cant use a mouse.

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• How often do businesses consider the above if it
  doesnt have an immediate effect on their
  business?
• Not often enough, current developments show.

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• That is changing and in the most
  business-unfriendly way through courts of law.

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• Since 2018, more than 10,000 lawsuits were filed
  in US federal courts alleging businesses were in
  violation of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities
  Act (ADA) or the California equivalent, the
  California Unruh Act.

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• These so-called surf-by lawsuits are even more
  frustrating than the typical ADA lawsuit that
  alleges physical barriers at a retail location,
  as they are more frequently being brought by
  individuals who have never even visited your
  commercial establishment, but instead simply
  visited your uncompliant website.

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• Their argument is based on the assumption that
  your website is a public accommodation and thus
  should be ADA compliant. Yet ADA, passed in 1990
  has no provisions on the website compliance.
  Thats where WCAG comes into play.

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• A lot of countries are adopting similar measures
  in local laws and you need to be ready to comply
  or be ready for massive fines.

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Why is WCAG important to your business?

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is
  developed through the W3C process in cooperation
  with individuals and organizations around the
  world, with a goal of providing a single shared
  standard for web content accessibility that meets
  the needs of individuals, organizations, and
  governments internationally.

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• WCAG 2.0 is approved as an ISO standard ISO/IEC
  405002012.

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• California courts are increasingly relying on the
  WCAG 2.0 AA standards, a set of international
  standards outlining methods to make websites more
  accessible for individuals with disabilities.

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• The Californian court ordered the restaurant to
  bring its website into compliance with the WCAG
  2.0, Level AA success criteria and to pay 4,000
  in statutory damages.

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• The case is currently on appeal, but it appears
  likely that it will be affirmed, likely paving
  the way for more businesses to be sued under
  California law for non-compliance.

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Why you should care?

• You might wonder, how does that apply to my
  business and my website, if I dont operate from
  the US and their laws dont apply to me? The
  answer is twofold.

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• Firstly, it is the right thing to do. You should
  consider and adapt your website for everyone in
  your audience to have equal access to it, no
  question about it.

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• Secondly, because ADA and can be applied in the
  same way GDPR applies to companies outside of the
  European Union if it is accessible in
  California or the US, it needs to be compliant.
• Another aspect is the fact that a lot of
  countries are adopting similar measure in local
  laws and you need to be ready to comply or be
  ready for massive fines.

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Tentacle Solutions

• If any of the above has got you worried that your
  site is not accessible enough and thus
  uncompliant, you can always arrange a
  consultation with the specialists from Tentacle
  Solutions.
• With almost twenty years on the market, their
  team knows how to produce a compliant solution
  for your business.

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