ADA Compliance: A Beginner’s Checklist

Ensuring your website is ADA compliant is not just important (as it prevents any legal backlash), but also beneficial (as it broadens your audience). The current best way to go about being accessible is to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG, for short).

But this comes with further complications: Should you follow WCAG 1.0, 2.0, or 2.1? And should the level of compliance be A, AA, or AAA? The WCAG source document is long, very technical, and relatively difficult to navigate through, read, and understand. This makes accessibility quite a task for anyone.

This is why we have come up with a quick ADA compliance checklist that helps you cover most of the key aspects of accessibility as a good headstart.

(Please note that this is not the complete ADA compliance website checklist. This is just a collection of the most important aspects of the guidelines, to make this short and to the point. The separate sections are provided for ease of reference, and are not exactly the same as the ones provided on the WCAG source document.)

ADA Checklist For Beginners (By CodeGlo)

We hope this checklist comes in handy when you take up your website’s accessibility project. If you want to read more about what ADA is and how to be compliant, we’ve got another resourceful blog you can check out. If you would want all of our future content delivered right to your inbox, (or if you just want an ADA compliance website PDF for your website) subscribe to our blogs.

Right now, less than two percent of all websites are ADA compliant. You don’t want to be one of the companies receiving a wave of lawsuits and demand letters your way and lose a massive amount of time, money, and resources to the fight. At CodeGlo, we offer ADA compliance services that thoroughly audit websites and go beyond merely reporting the issues: we offer to remediate them as well. This ensures that you can continue working on what matters most to the competitive side of your business, without worrying about possible website issues and legal hassles distracting you. Talk to us before it’s too late.