Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA)
The ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination agains anyone with disabilities, and that includes websites as well. The main purpose of this law is to ensure that anyone who has disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. While websites and other digital content online are still not explicitly mentioned in the ADA, regulations and court orders show that the ADA does apply to web content.
What does ADA mean for websites?
To ensure compliance with ADA and protect your website from litigation, websites must support assistive technology, such as screen reader programs. It may be quite a complex process that takes time. Simply put, being ADA compliant means you have made your website accessible for everyone, regardless of their ability. Not complying means individuals with a disability such as a visual impairment canât access your website as itâs intended â and leaves you vulnerable to potential lawsuits.
Is your website at risk of lawsuit?
There are attorneys who are looking for websites that are not ADA compliant. Some studies show that plaintiffs filed more than 11,000 ADA lawsuits in 2019, and those numbers are increasing each year. And they are not targeting just big corporations, but also small business websites.
If you own a website in the United States, there are some crucial reasons why you should get compliant as soon as possible!Â
Digital accessibility is a potential lifeline for disabled people all around the globe. Itâs not morally right, and itâs not good business to have an inaccessible website. Not being ADA compliant is a financial risk in the legal sense. Under US law, inaccessible website owners can be sued. If youâre sued and lose the case, you may be forced to pay potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees.
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