There are chance that you are threatened with law, if you are the owner of a website which do not adhere to Website ADA compliance. It could be because the website is not fully accessible to disabled persons and demand a small fee to settle the case. There are some laws that makes ADA compliance mandatory in all websites.
The web designers and digital marketers must be aware on how to develop and publish a website that is completely user friendly to the disable users. Let us look into the history of ADA Compliance Guidelines and dive deep into the ADA compliance that needs to be followed in all websites.
Americans with Disabilities Act – The ADA Compliance Guidelines
The civil rights law known as the Americans with Disabilities Act( popularly known as ADA) was passed with an aim to protect all rights of disabled persons in the country. This law applies to the state and local government, employment, public and private places, transportation, building codes, health and also telecommunications.
ADA is the reason we have special parking features, service counter height requirements and wheelchair ramps for the people with disabilities. Barriers like staircase that would hinder a customer with disabilities to take his wheelchair upstairs were termed as access barriers by the ADA.
This law is to provide protection to the disabled person just like others on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion and national origin. American Disabilities Act (ADA) basically provides 'equal opportunity' to people with disabilities. It was into existence since the 1990.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
The Department of Justice ended up saying that a government's YouTube channel did not have captions for the hearing impaired users in a case in the year 2016. It is very important for the deaf online users to be able to read the online content from captions shown below the videos and make it user friendly.
The World Wide Web Consortium must follow the WCAG as per the ADA Law and compliance. WCAG is nothing but a set of online standards created by the W3C for all the users including disabled persons. It has an exclusive twelve guidelines under four categories.
1. Perceivable Category
This title is to ensure that the content writers and producers make the content accessible by all the users including disabled users like blind, deaf and dumb users. It gives recommendation on how to clearly present the content in the videos without losing the meaning at any cost. It recommends the suitable text size, font and structure that are readable by all the online users.
It says all images must contain a caption and an alt text that provides a brief about the image. The video must have distinguishable content for users to see and hear that also includes separation of foreground and background.
2. Operable Category
The website functionality like keyboard navigation, pausing of moving sections, easy design flow and clearly labeled pages and sections to understand the website sitemap is mandatory.
3. Understandable Category
Consistent navigation, page language and contact forms must be clear and understandable.
4. Robust Category
The webpage code must follow the standard W3C guidelines and must be universally recognized by all types of web browsers.
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