Real Estate Webmasters (ADA) are experts in ADA compliance for Realtor websites.
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In the United States, the American With Disabilities Act or ADA and in Canada the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act or AODA are laws in place to ensure fair and equal access to all citizens when it comes to things like banking, government services, education, and yes online real estate information.
If your website does not attempt to be ADA or AODA compliant, you may also be committing a fair housing violation which is a very serious offense and can hard your reputation if found guilty.
When you take that important step towards accessibility you signal to the marketplace that you are truly a leader in your community.
You can also leverage your status as an accessible company in marketing campaigns, to build relationships with businesses that also support ADA and to show agents you care about your consumers in your recruiting campaigns.
At Real Estate Webmasters we take accessibility very seriously. We have hired the leading accessibility experts to audit our frameworks and our designer's team is trained specifically in WCGAG 2.1 and ADA compliance.
It is very important to us to offer the most accessible real estate website in the marketplace and be able to offer audit and remediation services to our valued clients.
Many companies sell accessible "widgets" that you can place on your website. They claim that these widgets somehow many your website WCAG 2.1 or ADA compliant. This is not true.
Generally what those widgets do is attempt to emulate assistive technologies (AT) that those with disabilities might use. The problem is, your disabled visitors already have their own AT solutions and that is not what they need. They need your code and your content to be constructed in a way that when their readers encounter it, they can make sense of what is being shared.
When a screen reader reads "mandatory field 1" you can be pretty sure that is not going to help that customer know what they are supposed to enter.
The following are helpful threads on ADA and accessibility.
Can you be sued if your website is not ADA compliant?
This is a question that often comes up from our Realtor customers, and unfortunately, the answer is yes. You can be sued if your website is not ADA compliant.
Worse,...
Today is a HUGE day for us here at Real Estate Webmasters Inc
We’ve achieved a milestone in web development that no other company or platform has ever achieved.
A perfect 800!
Mobile: 100 / 100 / 100 / 100
Desktop: 100...
Thought I’d share a little behind-the-scenes from REW’s latest upgrade to the Renaissance framework.
Our Google Page Speed and Web Dev scores are perfect on desktop (Thanks to Renaissance) and WELL into the green on...
One of our awesome customers in New Mexico was asking this question today and the short answer is “yes” they absolutely do have to be compliant.
But the challenge is still there are no clear guidelines (other than the...