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I just found out today that websites have to be ADA COmpliant or else... I'm a small store, how do I get this done? Is there anyone is Shopify works with this?
I ran my URL through https://wave.webaim.org/ and had some errors.
Would someone please let me know what to do.
Thanks,
Christina
You'll have to fix the errors that you found, I believe wave tends to give you options on how to fix these issues. You might not be able to fix it all but then having a good score is what matters most times.
I know you posted this months ago, but I'm new to the community and I'm an accessibility consultant. Just in case this info is helpful for you or others reading this post:
Automated online checkers like https://wave.webaim.org/ are a great place to start. But it's very important to realize that automated checkers have some limitations, and it's estimated that they only identify about 30% of accessibility issues.
For instance, AI tools (like WAVE) cannot tell you whether your website is able to be navigated by a keyboard (people who have mobility issues and can't use a mouse with their hand as well as people who have visual disabilities and depend on screen readers navigate through websites using the keyboard). This means by extension that addon tools that use AI can't fix all your issues either.
Some accessibility requirements can only be tested with manual human testing. Some of that testing isn't too hard – you can start testing your keyboard navigation by simply trying to use the tab key and the enter key to move around in your website.
Accessibility can feel a little overwhelming especially at the beginning. The important thing to do is to start learning and start making changes to improve your accessibility – progress not perfection. Web accessibility is a form of user experience optimization (making sure there's a good user experience for people with disabilities – which generally improves the user experience for everyone). It's a little bit like SEO – there are definitely some basic best practices that everyone SHOULD do, but there are also optimizations that depend a lot on the particular site and products, so there is lots of ambiguity about what meets "ADA compliance".
Happy to point you toward resources if you have some specific questions about accessibility.
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