When planning a website build, the importance of ADA compliance cannot be overlooked. Masterpiece Marketing can develop, design, and maintain your website while ensuring that it adheres to ADA guidelines.
- BEFORE THE WEBSITE BUILD: Design consulting and development work for compliance and testing.
- WHAT THIS MEANS: Compliance is determined to be complete when all website URLs contain no errors on the WAVE reporting tool (https://wave.webaim.org/ ) at the time of launch. WAVE is an evaluation tool that assists authors ensure that their websites are accessible to those with disabilities. Issues uncovered post-launch that were present at the time of launch will be addressed within this scope of work for a period of 30 days. After that, additional time and budget will be needed to make further adjustments for compliance.
- WHAT THIS INVOLVES: ADA compliance affects every aspect of the site. It starts with the design phase and includes color contrast, text size, button size, click/tap elements, and navigation. Then during development, ADA is a factor during front-end programming to make sure links, headings, and other elements meet compliance rules.
The entire website needs to be regularly scanned and checked for compliance violations, and then those need to be addressed.
- AFTER THE WEBSITE BUILD: This includes ADA-specific user training during WordPress training on maintaining compliance. The website content needs to be maintained in an ADA-compliant manner. That means new content that is added needs alt text on images, proper heading tags that follow a logical order, external links alert the visitor they are leaving the site, and more. The entire website needs to be regularly scanned and checked for compliance violations, and then those need to be addressed.
- TO MAINTAIN ONGOING COMPLIANCE: Masterpiece Marketing can provide a price for a monthly, quarterly, or bi-annual review. The extent of the process will depend on how many site updates have been made.
