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The Limits of Automation in Website Accessibility: How Scans Help and Overlay Widgets Fail


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Kris explains how automation can and cannot help with website accessibility. All work must ultimately be performed manually but scans can help reduce errors in manual work as well as speed up the audit process.

Overlay widgets do nothing and can create accessibility problems.
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Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/.
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Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org.
Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets. You can find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com.


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