Website Accessibility Auditing

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Web accessibility: Allowing people with disabilities to use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web.

The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind offers website auditing by highly qualified science instructors to ensure website accessibility by users with disabilities. Recommendations can be provided for making website content accessible for all uses of assistive technology.

With the passage of the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, and recent amendments to Section 508 and the Web-wide-world consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C/WCAG), local, state, federal and agency/organizational websites must be made accessible to persons using assistive technology devices such as screen readers, screen magnification and Braille output devices.

Why Web Accessibility is Important

Our Miami Lighthouse website auditing team has provided support to over 100 customers in retail, education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and many more sectors. It is essential that the Web be accessible in order to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities. An accessible Web can also help people with disabilities more actively participate in society.

Sample Questions to be considered:

• Do the foreground and background colors have sufficient contrast for low vision users?
• Are your headings in logical order?
• Do button/links have a text label to determine their actions when activated?
• Do your videos have audio tracks?

When developing or redesigning a site, evaluating accessibility early and throughout the development process can identify accessibility problems when it is easier to address them. Simple techniques such as changing settings in a browser can determine if a Web page meets some accessibility guidelines. A comprehensive evaluation to determine if a site meets all accessibility guidelines is much more complex.

Let us help you make your website ADA compliant

Related Publications

The Miami Herald's September 13 edition included Virginia Jacko's Op-Ed article, "Give visually impaired better internet access."

This article's purposes included helping readers understand:

• Why companies and organizations should make their online services accessible to blind and visually impaired Internet users.
• How including keyboard-enabled interfaces can make digital content more accessible.
• Services that Miami Lighthouse can provide to private and public organizations to increase accessibility of their website content.

To read the article click here.

Click here to read CEO Virginia Jacko's article in the Association of Corporate Counsels of South Florida newsletter.

Click here to read "Avoiding Litigation: Is Your Website Accessible to Visually, Hearing Impaired?" an article published in the Daily Business Review co-authored by Miami Lighthouse Board Director Steven Solomon.

Miami Lighthouse is AER accredited distinguishing that an agency or school operates at the highest level of quality and is positioned to generate the outcomes needed by the clients.

Miami Lighthouse received the coveted Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce 2023 Nonprofit Business Innovative Excellence NOVO Award with an organizational budget of $2 million and above.

Miami Lighthouse ranks among the elite 1% of U.S. nonprofits having earned 13 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator, the nation's premier independent nonprofit evaluator. Receiving such a distinction reflects our sound fiscal management, responsible use of donor dollars, and financial strength.

Early Intervention Blind Babies Program Named the Children's Trust 2016 Program of the Year. This most prestigious award recognizes this Early Intervention Program, in particular, for including parents as teachers.

Miami Lighthouse Learning Center for Children™ is a Florida gold seal and nationally Accredited Professional Preschool Learning Environment (APPLE)

Miami Lighthouse was recognized at the 2015 Florida Blue Foundation Sapphire Awards luncheon as an organization that has demonstrated excellence and innovation in community health.

Miami Lighthouse received the prestigious 2015 Beacon Award in Education at the 13th Annual Beacon Council Awards.

Miami Lighthouse is a two-time Charity Partner (2013 and 2014) of the Marlins Foundation and a 2017 Major League Baseball All-Star Game Legacy Partner. Our Florida Heiken Children's Vision Program has received over $300,000 in charitable donations through these partnerships.

Miami Lighthouse received the prestigious 2008 Concern Award from Health Foundation of South Florida.

Miami Lighthouse received a Silver medal at the 2016 Miami Today Gold Medal Awards Ceremony.

Miami Lighthouse named "Best of Miami" Charity 2017 by the New Times.

Miami Lighthouse received United Homecare’s 2012 Thelma Gibson Community Service Award at the 18th Annual Claude Pepper Memorial Awards Ceremony.

Miami Lighthouse received the prestigious South Florida Business Journal 2011 Excellence in Health Care Award in the Community Outreach category.

Miami Lighthouse honored by being named the recipient of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce 2010 Non-Profit Business Diamond Award1.

Miami Lighthouse received the prestigious 2020 award for "Best in Nonprofit" campaign by PRWeek referred to as the "Oscars of the PR industry".