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5/15/17
Deadline for complying with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website accessibility regulations is looming. Bank websites that violate them could face lawsuits and other penalties.
Is your website compliant?
“ADA website compliance” is an umbrella term that has come to encompass regulations detailed in Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act as well as the Web Accessibility Initiative’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, which serve as the website accessibility standards for most legislation.
These regulations ensure that people with disabilities can access and engage in online services in the federal government sector. Because many people with disabilities use assistive technology to help them use computers, such as screen readers and voice-command software, websites must be designed in such a way that they do not require people to see, hear or use a standard mouse to access information and act on it.
Web accessibility has always been a key component of the best bank website designs. Reaching your customers — wherever they are, whichever device their using and whatever their abilities — makes a lot of business sense. It’s just good customer service.
But now, because of recent revisions to the ADA regulations, banks will soon be required to provide websites that satisfy ADA compliance for their customers.
ADA compliance addresses common problems people with disabilities face while navigating websites. Here are a handful of tips for making your bank website accessible:
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is expected to establish website accessibility standards in 2018. However, that hasn’t prevented the DOJ and lawyers from targeting web accessibility issues on bank websites in the meantime.
All of BrownBoots’ new bank websites with ADA compliance as a priority, and we can produce a responsive bank website — from planning to launch — in about three months. In other words, there’s still plenty of time to redesign your bank website and ensure it’s ADA compliant.
If you’re not ready for an overhaul, we would be happy to perform a website scan on your existing site and provide a list of red flags, free of charge.
Don’t risk being in violation, and don’t neglect any of your customers.
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