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      SpotHopper Makes ADA Compliant Websites for Restaurants

      Keeping up with ADA legal requirements for your website is tedious... but essential! Want to ensure that your site looks great, stays legally complaint, and drives the most revenue? Here's how you can accomplish all of these goals.

      Contents: 

      1. Is Your Website ADA Compliant? 

      2. SpotHopper Creates ADA Compliant Websites for Restaurants

       

      Is Your Website ADA Compliant? 

      Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is absolutely vital these days - especially in major markets where lawyers lurk for their next case. Now, in order to stay tapped into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, which govern online accessibility, business owners must pay attention to the bi-annual updates. 

      Not only is initially meeting the WCAG accessibility updates all together tedious, tiresome, and pricey... but keeping up with the updates overtime makes things all the worse. In the NY Post's article, Lawyers cash in on suits demanding ADA-compliant Web sites, they argued that many ADA-compliance lawsuits are targeted:

      "against restaurants, because “blind people have difficulty cooking so they eat a lot of prepared food,” he explained. “But they can’t read the menus online or even get addresses for the restaurants.”

      Reaching full compliance is vital, but so is having a website that attracts more customers from the +80 average daily visitors finding you online.

      SpotHopper only works with restaurants and bars, so we know that's important to you.

      How to balance making sure that you have an attractive website which will turn visitors to diners while also keeping lawyers off of your back for ADA compliance?

      Keep on reading!

       

      SpotHopper Makes AA-Level WCAG Compliant Websites for Restaurants and Bars

      The last thing you need to worry about among in-house happenings is whether or not your website is ADA compliant.

      SpotHopper makes all of its websites AA-level compliant per the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 rules. Avoid the troubles of time-consuming lawsuits and high legal bills with a SpotHopper website. 

      How does SpotHopper create compliant websites? 
      • ADA/SEO tags for all pictures - editable from the platform.
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      • Sufficient color/font contrast throughout site. Read more on contrast and accessibility here.
      • Screen reader compatible call-to-action prompts (‘Read More’ vs. ‘Click Here’).
      • Legible fonts.

      • Stop/Play buttons on videos.

      • Stop/Play buttons on picture slideshows.

      • Stop/Play buttons on Review slideshows.

      • Video captions.
      • Quality Assurance (QA) team that tests websites throughout the build process. 

      With having an in-house Quality Assurance team, SpotHopper is able to stay on top of shifting WGAC compliance rules throughout the year. Also, you can count on SpotHopper to notify you if you make a website feedback request that is not ADA-compliant.