Section 508: Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)

Section 508 Web Accessibility Guidelines

Our Approach

With experience working with municipal governments, there is a strong importance to following Section 508 guidelines. The U.S. federal government's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) along with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has set forth the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) [currently in 2.1] which create ways of better describing content and layouts for all Americans regardless of their abilities. These guidelines allow for assistive devices to properly describe the content to those with limited or impaired vision and cognitive abilities.

Being in compliance with WCAG not only helps people gain meaningful access to your content and use your web site, it also provides the added benefit in speeding up page rendering by providing clean, well-formed code and optimizes for battery operated devices such as phones and tablets. This is an absolute necessity to any digital marketing agency and business with an online presence.

This would be impressive to local and state agencies throughout Tennessee as well as non-profits who get federal funding, to work with our agency for their development needs.

Great! Why should my site be compliant?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are somewhere around 47 million Americans with some sort of disability. This takes into account that populations age and will gradually increase over time. An estimated 98 million Americans by 2060 will have some sort of disability.

Individuals who have disabilities such as vision, hearing, or physical are about 20% of the population. This means challenges in creating web accessible content.

Why choose us to be your Agency of Record to Web Accessibility Compliance?

With our extensive experience with working with municipal governments, we had to create accessible content along with accessible layouts with the ever evolving criterion of the WCAG. Use of color, including proper front and back contrast is among the most important criteria in the guidelines. Setting up the proper tags, particularly in dynamic content, is equally as important as well.

The Americans with Disability Act (ADA) has set up regulations in January 2018 that requires web sites to be in compliance with at least the use of color criterion (Level A). This includes colors must work well with your personal branding (logos and color scheme). We could help you do that!