Publish a Statement on Your Websiteįirst, publish a statement on your website, similar to the one Kris has published on his website,. There are three simple things you can do right now, even if you weren’t at the webinar. Much of the content on the websites we provide is customizable, and with the ability to manage that content comes a responsibility on your part to make sure the content changes you make to your website are in line with current ADA accessibility best practices. We’ve already made changes based on Kris’s suggestions, and we have plans in place to incorporate more of Kris’s suggestions to “improve the website’s performance and accessibility for all users, including people with disabilities.” (You’ll see why I put that in quotes in just a moment.) What You Need to Do The world of ADA accessibility and compliance is always changing, so we’re learning new requirements right along with you.
Our part of that team effort is to make sure that we’re doing everything we can do at a system level to ensure your website is ADA accessible and ADA compliant. The answer is that this is a team effort. “Isn’t it your job to make sure my website is ADA accessible and ADA compliant?” It’s a Team EffortĪs the webinar drew closer, some of our website subscribers questioned why they needed to know about this information if we were in charge of maintaining their website’s technology. Let’s go back to the time when we were preparing for that webinar.
Danny attended the webinar, and after the fact, Danny agreed!īut, I’m getting ahead of myself. I assured him this wasn’t the case, and that this was an incredible learning opportunity. Now I understand how valuable this could possibly be.ĭanny’s first impression of the webinar (based on the email he received) was that we were trying to use a scare tactic to encourage people to attend this webinar. After we spoke on the phone, I thought it might be worthwhile. When I first read the email, I was pretty dubious. Thank you, Dave, for providing this information. After the webinar, I learned that I wasn’t alone in this opinion when I received this feedback from Danny (one of the attendees): A few weeks ago, we brought in Kris Rivenburgh, an attorney, website accessibility consultant, and the author of The ADA Book to help printers understand the challenges they may face with website accessibility and compliance issues based on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).Īfter I met Kris, it quickly became my opinion that this would be one of the most important webinars we’ve ever presented.
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