We design applications that are accessible to all

Digital accessibility removes barriers that can get in the way of innovation. Examples of technologies created for people with disabilities, but are now used widely are:

• Text-to-speech and speech-to-text (OK Google, Alexa, Siri)
• GPS and text-to-speech (navigation systems)
• Artificial retina project (self-driving cars)

15% of the world’s population – at least 1 billion people - have a recognized disability.

• US spending of people with disabilities is over $200 billion
• Global spending of the disability market is nearly $7 trillion

Additional accessibility considerations include:

• Mobile phones, smart watches, and other devices with small screens and different input modes
• Acquired disabilities - effects of aging without identifying as a “person with a disability”
• Temporary disabilities (e.g. broken arm or lost glasses)
• Challenging situations (e.g bright, glaring sunlight or noisy environments where audio can’t be heard)
• Slow or limited internet connection
• Cost-prohibitive internet connection

Committing to accessibility can demonstrate your business has a genuine sense of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Benefits of CSR may include:

• Enhanced brand image and reputation
• Increased sales and customer loyalty
• Improved workforce diversity
• Stronger search engine optimization
• Higher customer satisfaction

Some benefits and considerations for creating corporate accessibility policies and programs are:

• Mitigating rising legal risks to protect business assets and reputations
• US courts increasingly decide in favor of equal access, often citing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Our team uses custom software to quickly identify common code issues. By using this software, we are able to automatically crawl your site, saving time and budget.

Our software identifies:

• Color contrast
• Proper HTML structure
• Redundant links
• Missing form labels
• Image alternative text
• Skip links and suspicious alternative text
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) definitions

A senior member of the team will review each page of your site using an assistive technology to identify accessibility issues that software can't yet identify such as:

• Vague or confusing button, link, and label text
• Optimization for assistive technologies (e.g. keyboard-only, speech recognition, and screen magnification)
• Link and button area target sizes
• Tables markup
• Embedded non-accessible documents (e.g. PDFs, Powerpoints, and Word documents)

This is a comprehensive report of all accessibility issues identified by our team. It is helpful for product owners as much as designers and developers on your project. This is a great document to train your product team on what to look for as they develop new features in the future.

Included in the Summary Report:

• Automated Accessibility Score
• Number of errors detected
• Number of pages analyzed
• Number of average error per page
• Violation codes
• Code location of violations
• Remediation recommendations
• Links to WCAG guidelines

Once the accessibility audit has been completed, you may be wondering how your team will have the bandwidth to fix all of these issues. Our development team can provide you with an estimate and timeline for our team to address and resolve all accessibility issues. This saves your team time, allowing your current product team to stay laser-focused on their current tasks.