Accessible Web Works

Accessibility helps search engines find you, and more importantly, it helps your customers.

 
Accessibility (ADA) Compliance

ADA compliance is not just a service – it’s the law.  It also opens up your online market to a wide group of people your competitors are probably ignoring.  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires that U.S. programs and services be accessible to individuals with disabilities. A 1996 Department of Justice ruling makes it clear that ADA accessibility requirements apply to Internet resources.

What is Web accessibility?

According to the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI):

"Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web."

The following is a summary from the WAI:

Web accessibility:

• Encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.
  
  
• Benefits people without disabilities.
  • People using a slow Internet connection
  • People with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm
  • People with changing abilities due to aging.

Why is Web Accessibility Important?

1. To provide equal access and equal opportunity to all people.
2. To help people with disabilities more actively participate in society.
3. It is required by laws and policies in some cases.

WhooshWeb IC will help you make your web site accessible.

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