Web Laws & Standards
This 1990 American law prohibits discrimination based on disability.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
There are this many native HTML heading levels.
What is 6?
Deuteranomaly, the most common form of color blindness, creates difficulty distinguishing these two colors.
What are Red and Green?
Apple’s screenreader software
What is VoiceOver?
Success Criterion 1.1.1 mandates that non-text content, such as images and icons, must feature this equivalent element.
What is a Text Alternative (or Alt Text)?
According to the ARIA APG, these two keyboard keys trigger a click event on a plain focused button.
What are Space and Enter?
The Everlaw primary navigation bar has many icons (Project Home, Data Transfer, Project Search, etc). These are inaccessible for this reason.
What are Icons must have a text alternative.
This issue represents the most common type of accessibility violation found on the Everlaw platform.
What is Color Contrast (for text/images)?
Section 508 of this 1973 law enforces accessible technology in US federal agencies.
What is the US Rehabilitation Act?
According to the "First Rule of ARIA," you should use native HTML elements rather than ARIA attributes whenever possible because of this principle.
What is Native Semantics (or Semantic HTML)?
Dragon is an accessibility software supporting this.
What is voice recognition and speech-to-text?
Enterprise customers and government agencies often request this specific standardized document to review a company’s platform accessibility compliance.
What is a VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) or ACR (Accessibility Conformance Report)?
This EU legislation, effective in 2025, requires commercial products like e-commerce and banking to be fully accessible.
What is the European Accessibility Act (EAA)?
To ensure users can logically navigate a page via the Tab key, developers must align DOM order with this sequence.
What is Reading Order (or Focus Order / Visual Order)?
Name a notoriously inaccessible UI component used in web apps.
What is a tooltip or datepicker?
Exactly this many valid accessibility violations were identified in Everlaw's last Level Access scan.
What is 950?
Automated testing engines like axe-core typically catch approximately this percentage range of all WCAG issues.
What is 30% to 50% (or ~one-third to half)?
When calculating accessible names, rank these three from lowest to highest priority: aria-label, inner text, aria-labelledby.
What is inner text < aria-label < aria-labelledby?
When designing for low-vision users, web content must zoom up to this percentage without losing content or forcing horizontal scrolling.
What is 400%?
When creating an account on Everlaw, users have to scroll through our Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy notice. This page is inaccessible for a screenreader user because of this.
The user is unable to scroll to the end of the terms.