Website Accessibility Compliance
In the United States, failure to ensure website accessibility may result in legal consequences. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), websites are increasingly interpreted as places of public accommodation, and therefore must be accessible to individuals with disabilities.
1Check if your industry is required to comply
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Accommodation (Hotels, Motels, B&Bs)
Activities related to Real Estate
Administration of Economic Programs
Administration of Human Resource Programs
Administration of Environmental Programs
Administrative and Support Services
Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
Air Transportation
Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
Animal Production and Aquaculture
Apparel Manufacturing
Architectural and Engineering Services
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Automobile Dealers
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Banking and Credit Intermediation
Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
Broadcasting (except Internet)
Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
Building Equipment Contractors
Business Support Services
Chemical Manufacturing
Child Day Care Services
Clothing and Accessories Stores
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Computer Systems Design and Related Services
Construction
Construction of Buildings
Consumer Goods Rental
Couriers and Messengers
Crop Production
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
Dental Offices
Depository Credit Intermediation
Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
Educational Services
E-Commerce
Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses
Employment Services
Engineering Services
Environmental Consulting Services
Fishing, Hunting and Trapping
Food and Beverage Stores
Food Manufacturing
Forestry and Logging
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
Gambling Industries
Gasoline Stations
General Freight Trucking
General Merchandise Stores
Government
Grain and Oilseed Farming
Health and Personal Care Stores
Healthcare (Ambulatory Health Care Services)
Healthcare (Hospitals)
Healthcare (Nursing and Residential Care Facilities)
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Home Health Care Services
Individual and Family Services
Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Information
Insurance Carriers
Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)
Internet Publishing and Broadcasting
Investigation and Security Services
Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
Landscape Architectural Services
Legal Services
Libraries and Archives
Limited-Service Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Lessors of Real Estate
Livestock Production
Local Government, Excluding Education and Hospitals
Logging
Machinery Manufacturing
Management of Companies and Enterprises
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
Manufacturing
Marketing
Media and Publishing
Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
Metal Product Manufacturing
Mining (except Oil and Gas)
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers
Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant Wholesalers
Motion Picture and Video Industries
Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing
Non-depository Credit Intermediation
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
Nonprofit
Nursing Care Facilities
Offices of Dentists
Offices of Other Health Practitioners
Offices of Physicians
Oil and Gas Extraction
Other Amusement and Recreation Industries
Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
Other Financial Investment Activities
Other Services (except Public Administration)
Paper Manufacturing
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
Periodical Publishers
Personal and Laundry Services
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
Pharmacies and Drug Stores
Photographic Services
Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
Postal Service
Printing and Related Support Activities
Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
Publishing Industries (except Internet)
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills
Rail Transportation
Real Estate
Religious Organizations
Rental and Leasing Services
Residential Building Construction
Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Retail Trade
Roadside Assistance
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation
School and Employee Bus Transportation
Science and Research
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Social Assistance
Software Development
Specialty Trade Contractors
Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Stores
Sports Teams and Clubs
Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
Support Activities for Mining
Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations
Support Activities for Transportation
Support Activities for Water Transportation
Telecommunications
Textile Mills
Textile Product Mills
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
Transportation and Warehousing
Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services
Traveler Accommodation
Truck Manufacturing
Trucking
Utilities
Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds
Veterinary Services
Warehousing and Storage
Waste Management and Remediation Services
Water Transportation
Wholesale Trade
Wood Product Manufacturing