The American with Disabilities Act (ADA) was initially conceived to ensure compliance from physical locations and services. It was signed and passed in 1990, several years before the internet entered the mainstream. The Department of Justice has yet to post specific guidelines; thus, ADA compliance for e-commerce businesses can prove tricky. There have been several […]
You must make sure that your website is accessible to handicapped individuals. It turns out this is more than a social responsibility these days. Ignore these requirements and face a possible lawsuit or at the least get a demand letter. And don’t forget about the possible loss of business. Enter accessiBe. This software uses one
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In September 2010, the Department of Justice released the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design. This became the standard for accessibility of goods and services offered on the web by entities. Website owners who did not comply positioned themselves to not have great user experience for people with disabilities. Some have even faced
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We used to only think about physical buildings when we thought about accessibility, but now it applies to digital and websites. While specific laws have not yet been put in place, the time to make sure your website and other digital assets are compliant is now. Digital accessibility refers to the practice of building digital
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When you go to practically any public place in the United States, there is a certain expectation that the place is reasonably accessible for people of differing abilities. At the shopping mall, you expect to find priority parking near the entrance for people with disabilities. Once inside, you expect to find an elevator, too, and
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The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages used for the embedded computer systems that increasingly made up essential parts of military projects. Instead, Ada was designed to be be a single
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The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 and it was a civil rights law that prohibited the discrimination of those who are with disabilities.The law ensured that business and public services could accommodate people with disabilities such as installing wheelchair-accessible ramps, accessible water fountain spouts, adding Braille characters to signs, and a host
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Your website visitors are just as diverse as the community you serve and to deny them access to the content on your webpage is the same as not providing them access to your physical location. When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was first put forward the internet was just coming to the mainstream, now
The number of ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) lawsuits against education, government, small business, e-commerce and software-as-a-service (SaaS) websites has increased by 120 percent over the past two years. Judges will often rule in favor of the plaintiff unless the charges are obviously frivolous. At Optimum7, we focus on all aspects of internet technologies, including ADA compliance.
Every day, websites and mobile apps prevent people from using them. Ignoring accessibility is no longer a viable option. How do you prevent your company from being a target for a website accessibility ADA lawsuit? Guidelines for websites wanting to be accessible to people with disabilities have existed for nearly two decades thanks to the
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