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Accessibility Testing – The Path to Compliance

Getting a website to meet the web accessibility standards set by the AODA can seem like a daunting challenge. With the guidance from our AODA website audit, our team of Visually-impaired testers, will create an outline of all the items that need to be fixed. Once this list is completed, a final audit will be done, to ensure your website is fully compliant to WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

Business Case for Web Accessibility

Social Responsibility:

• Reduce the digital divide and improve the quality of life for millions, with an accessible website

Maximize Profits:

• Increase audience and user interaction
• Cater to the aging baby boomer generation
• Create goodwill with people with disabilities

Financial:

• Large savings if done on a new website build
• Being proactive can reduce costs in legal situations

Legal Risk:

• January 1, 2021 all websites must meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA
• Non-compliance can result in fines of $50,000 per day for Directors and Officers and fines of up to $100,000 per day for the corporation

Enforcement

Ontario’s goal is to be a fully accessible province by the year 2025. To reach this goal the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario has made advances in enforcement, and is ramping up it’s push to reach their 2025 goal. In 2017, 219 blitzes were made, targeting manufacturing and tourism organizations.
In the United States, there is no government organization overseeing the progression of the web to be accessible. Instead, plaintiff law firms are filing lawsuits, and winning across the states in America. And these lawsuits are on the rise.