Section 508 Compliance

This includes

Compliance with Level AA of Section 508/W3C

Baked into our internal design & development review & QC processes
Design & development team made to familiarize themselves with relevant guidelines
Updates are circulated among key teams as soon as they occur

Great value for Government Contractors clients mandated to fully comply

Complete transfer of compliance responsibility
Client team focuses on driving mission success

Convince all businesses to conform, even if not mandated to

Educate and encourage conformance
Not just as a part of corporate social responsibility or to generate public goodwill
Can prove to be the differential edge in bagging contracts

CASE STUDY

Background:

Accessibility Global (AG) plays a crucial role in enabling organizations to create a more diverse, equitable, inclusive & accessible workforce. It helps build a sense of belonging by validating lived experiences of people with disabilities by engaging in a continuous cycle of learning, evolution, and empowerment with a focus on success, representation, growth-minded practices and working together using sustainable technology.

Accessibility Global was keen to create a website, just one layer deep, to commemorate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023.

Task:

Their quest for a website design and development partner for this purpose led AG – almost inevitably – to Tizgee, due to our demonstrable expertise in creating websites (and other ‘phygital’ marketing platforms, assets and collaterals) that are 100% Section 508 compliant. Borne out by our extensive experience working with Federal agencies and non-profits, mandated to deploy Section 508 compliant technology platforms & communication interfaces.

AG tasked Tizgee with building a Section 508 compliant website to spread visibility, build awareness and heighten recall about both the occasion, and the cause it represents. The underlying idea was to present AG as a prime movers, influencer, espouser and enabler of inclusivity through enhanced accessibility.

Approach:

Tizgee encourages all its clients to comply with accessibility guidelines laid out under Section 508, whether or not they are mandated to do so. We take great pains to ensure our graphic designers, content creators, and website design & development teams are routinely drilled and kept abreast of the latest updates to these ever-evolving guidelines.

All the design comps we create and the digital platforms we build, that are mandated to be Section 508 compliant, go through a rigorous QC process by a trained accessibility expert. It was imperative for us to bring all this expertise to bear on this project, to establish that when it comes to enabling the disabled, GA come across as a genuine and authentic entity that truly ‘walks the talk!’

Solution:

In building the Global Accessibility Day 2023 website, we strove to strike a perfect balance between pleasing aesthetics, intuitive functionality/navigability, and accessibility/ease-of-use for people with physical and/or sensorial and/or cognitive disabilities.

We made sure we deployed verbiage that was easy to comprehend (without being dumbed down), using easy-to-read fonts in large font sizes, and graphics with patterns and color schemes that eliminated the slightest chance of any sort of dissonance for the visually or cognitively impaired.

Outcome:

Since this was a one-time project – a short-term website with a brief, pre-defined lifespan, we did not sign a website support, maintenance, and monitoring contract. However, we were later informed the website was viewed by over 2,500 members of GA’s prime audience: decision makers in government agencies and contractors, and non-profits of the type that GA seeks to partner with. The number of views logged, exceeded GA’s target by a fair margin.

The website got dozens of positive reviews from clients, friends and well-wishers of both GA and Tizgee, who’s feedback we actively solicited.

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