The Department of Justice is warning websites to get ready for ADA rules that will apply to websites. The federal agency says businesses must remove “barriers to accessibility." The advance notices of proposed rules include:
• Speech recognition software
• Font color and size adjustments to accommodate the visually impaired
• Captions for pictures, videos, or other multimedia presentations, which prevents “screen readers” from reading the information aloud to individuals who cannot see
• Options for increasing the limit on timed responses
• Options besides CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) where users are given distorted text to decipher
Read more about the coming rules here.
