Accessible Web Design Should Matter to Everyone
But it really matters to us.
ADA Ally Design was started out of frustration.
By a web designer frustrated by tools, templates, and developers with no appreciation for accessible, usable UX/UI.
By a marketer frustrated by a lack of options for bringing client’s sites into ADA compliance affordably without sacrificing conversion.
And by a business owner frustrated by demand letters and threats of litigation due to a lack of ADA compliance on multiple newly designed business websites.
Meet our leadership team
Matt
As a writer, I’ve worked on hundreds of websites. And when I learned about web accessibility standards years ago, I thought I was late to the game. Then in project after project, I watched designers and developers create sites with complete disregard for accessibility. Even when large companies were paying $100K or more for expert web design, no one seemed to know it was important. And worse, no one seemed to care when I brought it up. I was thrilled to meet a designer who shared my belief that meeting WCAG standards should be a minimum threshold for design, and that accessibility and useability benefit all users.
Bryson
I’ve been interested in software since high school and spent most of my career so far working on internal user-focused software for one of the largest retailers in the US. I believe in the philosophy that has propped up the tech sector for decades: Software should be open source and useable to everyone. Accessibility should be built into every project and I think one day it will be.
Robert
When I learned to use a screen reader at the age of 10, it expanded my world drastically. But at the time, less than 10% of the websites on the internet were accessible at all. Today, so much of our lives are online, and I don’t think the average person realizes how difficult that can make life for someone who’s visually impaired like me. As a student at UCLA, I was thrilled to help them fix the websites that I had previously struggled with during my application process. Now I’m thrilled to make it my career, so I can help users who rely on assistive technologies experience more of the world, more easily.
Jordan
I love designing beautiful things, but I firmly believe function is more important than form. My work is successful when a user has a good experience, and when I learned about WCAG standards in design, I saw an opportunity to improve my design by ensuring every user can have a good experience on a site I’ve designed. Accessibility is not a limiting factor in design at all, but it’s a guardrail that stops overzealous artists from putting their own aesthetic above the end user’s experience.
Your A11Y in ADA compliant design
Our team’s combined experience in WCAG compliance, web design, and business operations sets us apart when it comes to accessible web design.
We don’t use:
- Overlays, plugins, or widgets to mask accessibility issues.
- AI code crawling tools that misidentify WCAG best practices
We do:
- Build accessibility into your website from the ground up
- Improve the user experience for all of your customers
Our process is designed to be:
- Time-efficient.
- Cost-effective.
- Uncompromising on quality.
So you can check your website project off your list with confidence.
And rest assured that 100% of our WCAG website compliance audits are done by native users of assistive technology