Inclusive design for a progressive world
Accessibility is a company-wide initiative because to us, it isn’t about laws, regulations and scare tactics, but about doing the right thing for everyone. From a careful design process and in-house accessibility experts, to our partnership with AudioEye and free blogs and resources focusing on accessibility, our goal is to help your school build a web presence that is accessible to all.
During the deployment process, you’ll meet with your Project Manager and Designer to build a great website while adhering to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards*. Throughout the design process, we’ll take the time to walk you through which design elements help and hurt accessibility, and advise your team on best practices for adhering to ADA compliance guidelines. This includes photo ALT text and setting up permissions to ensure non-compliant content isn’t published. It’s important to note that although our team and platform work to adhere to WCAG 2.0 standards, some aspects of full ADA compliance depend on content updates performed by site admins and site users.
When we design a website, we take into consideration the following website features to make websites accessible:
*The standards for ensuring content is accessible to all users are known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. They are put out by the World Wide Web Consortium, and can be found here for your review. **Finalsite’s CMS includes both static and dynamic content elements. Because content changes take place frequently on our platform, we cannot guarantee that all content and the sites containing them will be 100% compliant at all times. Content and Web Editors should recognize that automatically-generated content must be proofed and, if necessary, manually edited in order to ensure that the public-facing website adheres to strict compliant formatting. This includes photo alt text and video transcriptions.
