Is your business ready to meet website accessibility standards?
What is web accessibility? Web accessibility for your website refers to how easy it is to navigate by users with disabilities on the motor, auditory, visual, or cognitive level. Making your website accessible will soon become a mandate rather than simply a desired standard. Looming deadline By January 1, 2021, Canadian businesses must meet web accessibility laws taking effect and impacting websites across Canada. Businesses can partner with web development leaders, such as WSI eStrategies, well-versed in the new requirements for major changes they make following that date. According to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), if your business has at least 20 employees, you have to perform and report the results of an internal compliance audit before this date. For businesses in Ontario, there are two criteria coming on board with the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0) Level AA changes: · Live Captions (criteria 1.2.4) ·