Booking Engine | ADA Compliance

What is ADA compliance

Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulates businesses to provide a website experience that works well for citizens with disabilities. An ADA compliant website provides an online experience accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. This means having a site that accommodates visually impaired users, creating content suitable for screen-readers, using descriptive links, and making website actions easily accessible via a keyboard.

alt text on graphics: Alternative text (Alt Text) is the metadata assigned to each image on your website explaining what the image is. It should be implemented using your website content management system or, if you don’t use one, directly in the website’s html code. So for example, the alt-text field will be available on load as shown below.Every image on your site should have descriptive alt text. This assists screen readers in deciphering content for those who are visually impaired. A screen reader isn’t able to figure out what an image is on its own, it relies on the alt text provided in the website code to read what an image contains to the user.

How Can You Test Your Booking Engine for ADA and WCAG Compliance?

To ensure that your website complies with ADA and WCAG standards, a combination of automated and manual testing is best. While many companies that specialize in building websites offer accessibility audits, it can be expensive, so I recommend that most companies opt for automated testing in addition to conducting their own manual testing.One thing to check is that your website includes alternative text (aka alt text) for each image. Alt text is a word or phrase that describes an image for those with a visual impairment. Having accurate alt text is important not only because it enables screen reading software, such as NVDA or JAWS, to describe images to visually impaired users, but also because it enables search engines to display images based on written descriptions and to display search results more accurately. This type of testing can be tedious to do manually, so consider using an automated system to find potential violations and issues faster. The W3C has a list of web accessibility evaluation tools.Manually auditing your website for ADA and WCAG compliance involves reviewing many aspects of your site’s design. You can start by testing the frequently used colors on your website using a tool that assesses the color contrast ratio of text on top of backgrounds.

ADA compliance website

GraphicsAlternative text (Alt Text) is the metadata assigned to each image on your website explaining what the image is. It should be implemented using your website content management system or, if you don’t use one, directly in the website’s html code. So for example, if you use WordPress, the alt-text field will be available on load as shown below.Every image on your site should have descriptive alt text. This assists screen readers in deciphering content for those who are visually impaired. A screen reader isn’t able to figure out what an image is on its own, it relies on the alt text provided in the website code to read what an image contains to the user.