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6/15/22
After many months of silence, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued an updated statement about its perspective on websites and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
While waiting for the new guidelines, bank website agencies like BrownBoots were doing their best to prepare for a specific — legal — position, bracing for a series of government-mandated rules and regulations. Now that the DOJ has stated its case, some website vendors might find themselves scrambling to catch up.
But not BrownBoots!
In many ways, the DOJ’s updated position was merely a reiteration of its original stance that websites are, in fact, covered under Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Banks and credit unions specifically are mentioned in Title II as businesses that are open to the public.
While the DOJ’s position already provided a few examples for ensuring website accessibility, it still doesn’t state any standards for measuring compliance, let alone technical direction. Instead, the DOJ’s guidance references the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Section 508 Standards, specifying the use of WCAG 2.0 Level AA criteria.
And yet the DOJ has recently enforced criteria from WCAG 2.1, a newer version. Added to that ambiguity are several other gray areas:
All things considered, DOJ didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know — and weren’t already doing.
Even before the new statement from the DOJ, BrownBoots was committed to building bank websites that adhere to the WCAG 2.1 criteria, aiming to satisfy all the Level AA criteria (and even some AAA criteria), including:
Building WCAG 2.1 (Level AA)-compliant websites means we don’t have to retrofit any of our existing bank sites. Neither must we adjust our process for designing and coding bank websites to come.
Of course, with WCAG 2.2 and 3.0 on the horizon, we will continue to keep our fingers on the pulse of accessibility to ensure all visitors to our bank websites enjoy an optimized experience — even as the DOJ struggles to catch up.
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