ADA Standards and Website Design – Legal Advice from an Expert #shorts

Websites are a great tool for businesses to expand their reach, but it's important to remember that not all users have the same skills.

To ensure that everyone can access your website, consider designing it with accessibility in mind.

This means following American with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines and understanding how to make the user experience more accessible. Let's take a look at what those guidelines are so your website can be as inclusive as possible.

The acronym POUR is often used to explain these accessibility guidelines. Below we will discuss them all in detail:

Perceivable: Users must be able to perceive information with their available senses. This means providing text alternatives for non-text content such as images or videos, providing sufficient color contrast between the text and the background, and using fonts that are easy to read.

Operable: Users must be able to operate interface components and navigation. Make sure your website is navigable using a keyboard instead of just a mouse, offer multiple ways to navigate menus and links, and let users pause or stop auto-refresh features on your website.

Understandable: Users must be able to understand the information and operation of the user interface. Your content should be written clearly, without jargon or complex terminology; this includes page titles, headings, labels, buttons, etc., all of which should make sense when read aloud by screen readers or other assistive technologies.

Additionally, you should include input assistance, such as error messages when users submit forms or payment fields.

Robust: Content must be robust enough so that it can be interpreted reliably, even by assistive technologies such as screen readers. It is important that your code contains valid HTML formatting. This means that you need to ensure that it follows the web standards prescribed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

Following these guidelines will help ensure that your website is accessible to everyone who visits, regardless of physical ability or disability.

This not only means that you are providing a service to a much broader audience, but also that you are less at risk of an ADA lawsuit due to non-compliance with web accessibility standards, which can be costly for any business!

So take some time today to review your site's design and make sure it follows the POUR principles for maximum accessibility!

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