Getting an Accessibility Audit is like Giving Your Business a Shield and a JetPack.

In the ever-evolving world of online commerce, communication, and engagement, operating a website that is not accessible to users with disabilities is a genuine problem.

Across the nation, plaintiffs’ law firms have identified non-compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a lucrative vulnerability for online businesses, launching lawsuit after lawsuit at unwitting targets, sometimes striking the same business twice.

Key regulatory bodies are highlighting ADA-compliant digital accessibility as a primary goal and enforcing implementation of this civil rights standard through hefty fines.

Congress is poised to take additional action to codify the modern understanding that ADA compliance means ensuring accessibility online in the same way that businesses must in the brick-and-mortar world.

The good news is that it is really easy to get ADA-compliant, which shields you from the worst of the bad stuff and supercharges your advancement into the good stuff! All it takes is working with a company like Allyada to complete a digital accessibility audit of your website.

Let’s take a closer look.

What is An Accessibility Audit?

A digital accessibility audit is a comprehensive review and analysis of your website from the perspective of users with disabilities and in light of current regulatory standards, legal requirements, and tech advancements. Depending on the package you select, an audit identifies everything from critical errors on certain key web pages to comprehensive errors across your entire website.

Our experts perform the audit and prepare the report. Your designer can implement our suggestions to bring your website into compliance, or we can do it for you.

Does My Website Need One?

Yes! Every website needs an accessibility audit! The most recently published data on website accessibility confirmed that almost 100% of websites are non-compliant. Are we exaggerating? Nope. Slightly over 96% of the top 1 million websites do not meet the current standards established by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The latter is a set of guidelines established to maintain global consistency for internet standards.

Though US-based businesses are not beholden to the WCAG, they are regulated under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which requires that businesses ensure equal access to all consumers. The WCAG standards are a critical guidepost for identifying key digital accessibility impediments under the ADA.

So, unless you’ve intentionally brought your website into compliance (usually because you’ve already been targeted with a lawsuit or fines), then the likelihood is that you need to.

What Does an Audit Involve?

Our inclusive team of sighted and visually impaired, CPACC-certified accessibility experts will conduct a comprehensive review of your website to identify impediments to unrestricted access by users with disabilities. We provide a full report of our findings, along with either a plan for remediation to be used by your designer or by our in-house remediation team to bring your website into compliance.

Can I Choose What’s Right for Me?

Absolutely! Regardless of your business or your budget, we have several options for accessibility audits and packages, including a fully customizable approach. After pursuing our services, choose from our packages:

• Starter Pack: Designed to ensure basic accessibility standards are met. Select pages across your site are audited by a visually impaired tester. We prepare and provide a report identifying critical errors on these key pages. Your designer does the rest. Flat Rate pricing.

• Standard Pack: Designed to ensure ADA compliance. A full accessibility audit is completed, including manual testing by our CPACC-certified accessibility experts, along with an authentic user experience test by one of our visually impaired testers. We prepare and provide a report identifying the full scope of errors across the entire website. Your designer does the rest. You’re entitled to 50% off a check-up audit in 3 months.

• Premium Pack: Designed to ensure your site becomes and stays ADA-compliant. You get all of the services of our Standard Pack plus enrollment in our discounted subscription plan. We do the remediation work for you.

• Flexible Pack: Designed for the flexibility to meet your unique customization needs. We call you and design a compliance strategy together.

How Does an Audit Benefit My Business?

This is our favorite part! By auditing your website for ADA compliance issues and modernizing your user interface, you’ll shield yourself from legal repercussions, boost your SEO rankings, reach more customers, and gain a generous tax credit!

• Less legal exposure! Sleep well at night knowing that you won’t be served with a demand, lawsuit, or fine the next day because your website is ADA-compliant!

• An expanded customer base! By eliminating barriers to use, you unlock the next level of UX wizardry, expanding your website’s reach to users with disabilities (one-quarter of the US population!) who were previously excluded from unhindered access.

• Boost SEO rankings! Do you even know that search engine algorithms favor accessible websites? We do. That’s why we’re here.

• Tax incentives! The government has essentially settled on two ways to get your website ADA-compliant: regulatory fines or tax breaks. What an easy choice! Don’t give money to the government; invest in your company instead!

Contact Allyada Today to Get Started!

There aren’t many situations in life where complying with the law and meeting regulatory standards is actually a win-win for your business. With a website accessibility audit, it’s a win-win-win-win! Speak with an accessibility expert today to see which plan works best for you.

Email us at contact@allyada.com or call us at 1-844-ALLY-ADA