WordPress ADA compliance services
A guide to understanding the fundamentals of WordPress website accessibility and the
ADA and WCAG 2.1 compliance solutions we offer.
Adapting your WordPress website to ADA and WCAG 2.1 requirements can be a bit challenging. At Dev Artistry Hub, we run
accessibility audits and implement third-party ADA infrastructure to help you ensure WordPress ADA compliance.
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We’ll handle the process of making your WordPress website ADA compliant, so your
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Information and user interface (UI) design are displayed to users in ways they can understand.
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Navigation and functionality can be carried out via various methods, from keyboard to screen readers.
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Content and interactions are presented in a way that maximizes predictability and are easily interpreted.
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New to WordPress ADA compliance audits?
Becoming ADA compliant on a WordPress website can be a lot of work! We start with the basics, and go beyond.
Target a larger audience
Whether you target a small demographic or offer services to an array of customers, you can benefit from making your WordPress website more accessible to a broader range of individuals. Reach more visitors and keep them, by allowing screen readers to describe the images to the blind, ensuring your navigation can be used without a mouse for those with physical limitations, and more.
Improve your SEO results
Search engines have changed — becoming more human-like in their approach to crawling, consuming, and understanding page content. By making your WordPress site more accessible, it also becomes easier for both search engines and screen readers to make sense of content and structure. Your accessibility efforts can enhance your SEO endeavors as well.
Up your reputation
Show that your visitors are valuable and respected, by making their browsing experience a priority. Making an effort to include everyone will be apparent to those who need the accessibility that is implemented. Imagine they’ve been “getting by” on other websites, and are able to access your content with greater ease than expected thanks to our WordPress ADA compliance services.
Avoid the worry
With WordPress accessibility and compliance, it’s better to be proactive than reactive. Compliance should be done out of concern for your visitors — not for fear of legal action — but that can be a driving-factor for many website owners. Many esteemed brands and businesses have already been sued for lack of ADA compliance.
Meet your professional WordPress
migration team
Our team of WordPress experts have performed numerous ADA audits on website, and
have implemented accessibility compliance on numerous client sites. Through our skilled
efforts, we have adapted WordPress websites to conform to WCAG standards by meeting
or exceeding the requirements.
Gabrial Acedo
Wordperss maintenance specilist
- 7 yrs WP experience
Tod Anderson
Web Designer
- 8 yrs WP experience
Aaron Bixby
WordPress Technician
- 4 yrs WP experience
Caroline Carini
Project Manager
- 8 yrs WP experience
New to web accessibility
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Qualify for financial assistance for accessibility compliance
The IRS provides a Disabled Access Credit option that can help you cover the costs of
ensuring that your WordPress website meets accessibility standards. Depending on your
situation, you may be eligible for a tax deduction of up to $15,000 per year.
Stop worrying about ADA lawsuits
WordPress ADA compliance lawsuits are a lot more common than you might think.
Some people proactively target websites that fail to meet ADA standards in search of a quick payday. As your website grows, it can become a bigger target for potential lawsuits.
To give you an idea, civil penalties for a first violation of ADA compliance can cost as much as $92,000. Subsequent violations carry higher penalties, with costs rising up to approximately $184,000.
That’s why WordPress ADA compliance is a must. On top of helping you avoid legal costs, high accessibility standards also translate to a better user experience for all of your visitors.
Our ADA compliance WordPress solutions
We offer the following WordPress accessibility services:
Manual ADA compliance audit
- Sequential heading tags — Dev Artistry Hub to ensure heading tags to be in sequential order.
- Basic contrast audit — Ensure proper contrast levels of major site design elements..
Implementation of third-party ADA infrastructure
- Image ALT tags implemented
- Skip navigation option enabled
- Keyboard navigation optimization
- screen reader optimization
- ARIA (name attributes) added and optimized
- Additional interface capabilitie — Font handling, color handling, contrast handling, animation handling, content highlighting, audio muting, content deciphering via Wikipedia and Wiktionary
Ongoing WordPress ADA compliance support
- Ongoing scans and compliance – Includes daily scans and analysis of the WordPress site to confirm any new content is adjusted and accessibility statement.
- Image ALT tags implemented
- Skip navigation option enabled
- Keyboard navigation optimization
- screen reader optimization
- ARIA (name attributes) added and optimized
- Additional interface capabilitie — Font handling, color handling, contrast handling, animation handling, content highlighting, audio muting, content deciphering via Wikipedia and Wiktionary
WordPress ADA compliance FAQs
What is web accessibility?
Web accessibility involves following best-practices of website access, coding, display, and interaction — to ensure there are no barriers for those with disabilities. This would ideally allow all WordPress site users to have equal access to both the information and functionality.
This often requires adding additional descriptive tags to existing code, improving navigation structure, ensuring colors and text are displayed in a very legible manner, etc. — so that any valuable information is available and easily accessible to all who wish to obtain it.
What is WordPress ADA compliance?
ADA is the American with Disabilities Act and is a law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. Its goal is to provide clear and comprehensive standards and regulations throughout all facets of life, including public accommodations and telecommunications.
ADA compliance covers a broad range of areas, but we’re focusing on websites here. The accessibility standards and regulations set forth by ADA are not very specific when it comes to websites. This is where the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) come into play.
The WCAG provides guidelines/documents for web accessibility, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — which is the main international standards organization for the Internet. Thus, the WCAG is used until the Department of Justice properly defines regulations specifically addressing the accessibility of websites.
For websites, ADA Compliance is essentially the following of specific techniques that WCAG provides guidance on.
Do I really need my WordPress website to be ADA compliant?
To be honest — we’re not sure. Since we’re not lawyers, nor did we make the “rules”, we can’t accurately answer that. When it comes to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), there really aren’t any specific technical requirements for websites.
However, this doesn’t mean you should ignore ADA or web accessibility. What we do know, is that all websites should be given a good-faith-effort of becoming easily accessible. This should be the case for any user who may wish to browse your website, regardless of their disability of type of impairment. They deserve it. Making your WordPress website accessible benefits an array of individuals and businesses.
Basically, there are standards which apply to US federal agencies, and State or Local Government websites (not business/personal websites). While some disability discrimination laws do mention websites, they don’t specify the technical standards required to comply with the law. Regardless of ADA’s lack of stating websites must be fully accessible, the Department of Justice seems to rule on the side of “they should be”.
Can I use a WordPress ADA plugin?
By and large, WordPress ADA plugins simply provide you with checklists of tasks that you need to carry out. They normally tell you that you need to implement alt tags and optimize your website for screen readers. However, they leave all of the hard work to you.
To adapt your website to ADA and WCAG standards, you’ll need to fully understand the guidelines for accessible design. This can involve a lot more work than you might imagine, especially if you don’t have a background in web design or development.
Can you help me test my WordPress ADA compliance?
As part of our expert WordPress services, we can review your website to see where it meets ADA and WCAG standards and where it doesn’t. We can also show you third-party test results that indicate where your website’s weak areas are, and what can be done to address those shortcomings.
Keep in mind that there’s no official ADA certification. However, we have the expertise to ensure that your WordPress website fully meets WCAG Conformance Levels A and AA.
What’s the difference between Conformance Level A and AA?
In simple terms, WCAG 2 Conformance Level A is less strict than Level AA — and is therefore more “easily” obtainable and maintainable.
- Level A conformance means all WCAG 2 Level A requirements (success criteria) have been satisfied.
- Level AA conformance satisfied all the WCAG 2 Level A requirements, in addition to the Level AA requirements.
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