In October, Rep. Ted Budd and Rep. J. Luis Correa introduce the Online Accessibility Act (H.R. 8478) in Congress. The bill requires businesses, including financial institutions, to meet Level A and Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to be ADA compliant. You can prevent your bank website from web accessibility litigation by using an ADA-compliant theme to build your website and ensuring your content follows WCAG 2.0 guidelines.

With technology constantly changing the way consumers do business, web accessibility standards must keep up. You can maintain an ADA-compliant bank website by keeping abreast of changes to federal ADA law and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers a comprehensive checklist to guarantee your bank website is accessible. In this article, we simplify those recommendations by organizing them into high-, medium-, and low-priority fixes.

More than 7.5 million Americans had a vision disability in 2018. The Bureau’s Americans with Disabilities Report found that the visually impaired had a median income of $35,167 in 2014. Americans with disabilities have more than $200 billion in discretionary spending, according to the National Organization on Disability. With these statistics in mind, your bank website needs to be ADA compliant. In addition to avoiding an ADA lawsuit, being accessible to visually impaired customers is good public relations, boosts your SEO, and increases your customer base.

The statistics for 2019 are still being tallied, but law firm Seyfarth Shaw predicts that at least 20 percent of  ADA Title III lawsuits last year involved inaccessible websites and mobile apps. Although the rate of filings slowed down during the last quarter of the year, the total number of lawsuits was on track for surpassing the more than 10,000 […]