ADA Website Compliance

Yes. This New York Times article, This Denver Post article, and this Forbes article all show how businesses across the nation are falling victim to these lawsuits.

It’s not a good idea. We have worked with websites that have been the object of these ADA lawsuits even though they were using an accessibility plugin. The only way to ensure you’re not the target of an ADA-based lawsuit is to do a full-compliance audit.

There are common ADA compliance testing tools on the internet. However, they often only test superficial aspects of the website. The only way to guarantee that a website won't be subject to a lawsuit is to manually inspect each page for ADA compliance.

At the end of the day, the cost depends on the size of the website. A website with thousands of product pages will cost substantially more than a website with 25 pages. However, the cost of settling a ADA-noncomliance lawsuit can be from $10,000 - $30,000 or more depending on the size of the website.

Nobody wants to be involved in a lawsuit. However, being ADA and WCAG-compliant is just good business. Every business should want to be as welcoming as possible to everyone to attract the most customers. Plus, if that weren’t enough, including as many people as possible is just the right thing to do.

While you can hire a developer or use one that’s already on your team, it’s faster, easier, and cheaper to let us implement the changes. We’ve worked with hundreds of websites to ensure ADA and WCAG compliance and are experts at making changes quickly.