As a small business, your digital presence is crucial to reaching a broader audience.
However, ensuring that your website and digital assets are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities, is not just a matter of broadening your market - it's also a legal requirement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Our services are designed to help you easily navigate these requirements, ensuring your website and digital assets are accessible, navigable, and enjoyable for everyone.
We use special software to check your website and any digital assets (like PDF or Word) for common digital accessibility problems quickly. This tool scans your whole site and your digital assets, giving you a list of issues to fix. It's great for regular checks to catch problems early.
Our experts review your website and any digital assets (like PDF or Word) to find digital accessibility issues that computers might miss. We test how the site/files works with keyboards, screen readers, and other tools people with disabilities use. This ensures your site and digital assets works well for everyone.
After our audits, we give you a clear, easy-to-understand report. It shows what we found, why it matters, and how to fix it. This helps you plan and track your progress in making your site and digital assets more accessible.
We don't just find problems - we help fix them, too. Our team works with your developers to make the necessary changes to your website and digital assets. We ensure all fixes follow digital accessibility guidelines while keeping your site and digital assets looking and working great.
We teach your team how to create accessible websites, content and digital assets. Our training covers the basics of digital accessibility and practical tips for different roles like designers, developers, and content writers. This helps everyone understand how to keep your site and digital assets accessible.
We offer resources to help your whole company understand and value digital accessibility. Through workshops and online sessions, we keep your team updated on the latest digital accessibility standards. We aim to help you build a culture that always considers digital accessibility in your work.
ADA compliance refers to the digital accessibility guidelines set forth by the government, which are designed to make services and information accessible to individuals with disabilities.
For websites and digital assets, this means providing features that assist users with vision, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairments.
Compliance is a legal requirement and a best practice that can enhance user experience and increase customer loyalty by showing that your business cares about all community members.
While some businesses may consider accessibility overlays, also known as widgets, as a quick fix to ADA compliance, these tools often fall short of providing digital accessibility.
Overlays, which scan and modify a website's existing elements to supposedly improve digital accessibility, can miss complex digital accessibility issues that require nuanced solutions. They frequently fail to address the full scope of user needs, potentially excluding a significant portion of your audience. Overlays does not scan or modify digital assets.
Moreover, relying on overlays alone will NOT protect your website and digital assets from lawsuits and other legal issues. Courts have noted that overlays sometimes fail to meet legal digital accessibility standards, leaving businesses vulnerable to legal challenges.
Proper compliance requires a foundational approach to web design, development and the creation of digital assets, which ensures that digital accessibility is integrated into every aspect of your website and digital assets from the ground up. This not only enhances user accessibility but also provides a more robust defense against potential legal actions.
Our approach to ensuring your small business website and digital assets are ADA-compliant involves a comprehensive audit, followed by detailed recommendations and implementations tailored to your needs.
We focus on structural changes that improve digital accessibility, such as keyboard navigation, text-to-speech compatibility, and visual design adjustments for better readability.
Our team ensures these solutions are seamlessly integrated into your site and digital assets, providing a user-friendly experience for all visitors.
Kim Vigsbo, founder of We Are Fish, is currently authoring a book titled "Digital Accessibility: A Guide for Small Business Owners" (working title).
This book is tailored for business owners with limited or no prior knowledge of digital accessibility.
We Are Fish currently offer 2 courses:
