Your Website Needs ADA Compliance or get fined!

Let me start by giving you a 5min review on the ADA websites regulation, potential risks of not being complaint and how the ADA Websites Association can help. sounds good? Great. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires all businesses with publicly accessible venues to have special accessibility options for disabled. 

So for example you probably seen, special ramps for wheelchairs in access to public venues, disabled restrooms maybe Braille indented buttons in an elevator, right? [let them answer], yeah it’s all part of the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA. 

• Recently the supreme court ruled all places that require to be ADA compliant must have their websites compliant as well. 

• And not only them but any business with 15 employees and up, under the ADA regulation and;

• Any business at all, even a sole proprietary under the Human Rights Act, which stipulates anybody deserve to have equal access rights to public venues, and websites are public venues. 

This comes as a result of 6 years of aggressive rise in website accessibility law suites, from about 4400 in 2015 to 12,000 in 2019. 

One of the most famous ones was a lawsuit against Dominos Pizza. Did you hear about that case?

In 2016 Dominos were sued by Guillermo Robles a blind person that claimed he was not unable to order a pizza online because Domino’s did not design its website or app to be compatible with the software he uses as a blind person to navigate the web. He claimed the company was in violation of the ADA.

• In January 2019, The Ninth Circuit ruled in his favor. 

• In October 2019, Domino’s asked the Supreme Court to overrule the January decision. The court denied Domino’s petition and turned down the appeal. Basically, clearing the way for blind people to sue businesses if their websites are not accessible.

Bottom line, all businesses websites must be ADA compliant if they want to avoid prosecution. 

ADA compliance is no longer apply to just physical location. Your website is a public place too, so it has to be in compliance with ADA, you know, American With Disability Act?

If your website is not in compliance, you might get fined up to 150k.

Get in touch with me for a free ADA Widget that can possibly protect you and your website from lawsuit.