ADA compliance refers to the Americans with Disabilities Act that states that all tech and internet sites need to be made available to people with disabilities. There are different levels of ADA compliance, depending on how many of the guidelines you follow. Studio Simpatico does not guarantee ADA compliance on our sites (we recommend you hire an accessibility firm to do a proper audit of your website), but we are constantly learning and improving the way we design and develop our sites.

Making your website accessible is probably the most important thing you can do for your users. Accessibility is important because it ensures that everyone, regardless of disability, can use your website which also ensures that you get the most traffic as possible. It can also greatly boost your SEO, simply because of the amount of descriptive content it uses and the HTML standards it requires. It’s not expensive to make your site more accessible, it just requires a few extra steps that you’ll eventually learn to do automatically. Accessibility matters in every step of the web design process: from the design itself, to the code, to the content you add.

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Amber Weinberg

Amber is a freelance front-end developer specializing in semantic and accessible custom WordPress themes. She works with agencies and other freelancers to bring their designs to life using custom ACF flexible layout builds - making them more performant and less buggy while allowing the client easy customization without breaking the design system.