We Design Applications That are Accessible to All
Learn why organizations are hiring DeveloperTown to complete accessibility audits on existing products enhancing user experience.
A Record Number of Lawsuits
Have Been Filed Over Accessibility
Learn how to shield your organization from accessibility-based lawsuits. Our team can help you mitigate risk by identifying accessibility issues before any lawsuits are filed.
Accessibility Audit Packages
Our experienced design team can help your team in a multitude of capacities. Below are common starting points for clients who engage our design team.
Audit to target WCAG AA compliance. Utilizes automated tool to catch technical issues.
Our team will put together recommendations to resolve issues
~1 week timeline | $10k Investment
Unlimited views
W3C Accessibility Certified Team
Automated Technical Audit plus a Senior UX Designer audit your app using an assistive technology to catch any issues that the automated tool cannot identify
4+ week timeline | $30-40k Investment
Up to 50 Views
W3C Accessibility Certified Team
Persona development and refinement plus Absorb Design Sessions to establish your internal design process.
Our team will create a design system, product backlog, accessible UI designs, and front-end component library to support ongoing development.
Deliverables vary based on project need
16+ week timeline | $50k+ Investment
Up to 50 Views
W3C Accessibility Certified Team
Why You Should Care About Digital Accessibility
Businesses that prioritize accessibility and inclusion are more likely to reach a greater number of people with positive brand messaging that meets rising legal requirements. High-performing businesses, as indicated by a Fortune 100 study, include disability inclusion as a common practice in their diversity strategies.
Drive Innovation
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)
Increase Market Research
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
Enhance Your Brand
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
Minimize Legal Risk
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 Accessibility Process
Our team at DeveloperTown is very passionate about building great experiences for all users to enjoy. We believe that planning for accessibility in the early discovery stages of a project increases project outcomes and reduces the cost to retrofit accessibility later in the process. We embrace WCAG guidelines and work with your product teams to determine the correct compliance rating early in the project. As we move into the research and UI phases of the project, we will follow industry best practices to ensure users have the best experience.
1. Automated Code Review
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
2. Human Review of Content
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)
3. Summary Report
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
4. Technical Remediation
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.
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