Accelerating Content Compliance for Globally Accessibility & Inclusivity with Video for the Visually and Hearing Challenged and others
Bottom-line – Get Compliant or Get Sued by the Department of Justice and pay a large fine. Or, “do the right thing” and help those who happened to be disabled but still your customers or potential ones.
Get short-form news-style videos, video blogs and VPR-Video Press Releases to help the deaf with closed-captions and blind with audio voiceovers along with innovative video clips to help those with learning challenges. To get started email cross@gocross.com or call 303-594-1694.
Background – The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.
The American for Disabilities Act (ADA) is a legal requirement for all businesses who sell directly or indirectly to the Federal Government and is just business practice to not discriminate based on disability. Businesses are legally required to provide equal access to their goods and services, both online and offline. Non-compliant websites risk facing ADA compliance penalties which can be costly and damaging to a business’s reputation. The maximum civil penalty for a first-time violation is $75,000, while subsequent violations carry a maximum fine of $150,000.
In addition to civil penalties, businesses may also be required to pay compensatory damages to individuals who have suffered harm as a result of the business’s non-compliance. These damages can include the costs of emotional distress, lost wages, and other expenses incurred by the affected individual.
Video helps the visually-challenged with high fidelity audio.
Video helps the hearing-challenged with closed-captions.
Video helps the learning challenged with innovative media imagery.
Video also provides compliance with ADA including among other provisions compliance with Title IV – Telecommunications with Closed Captioning:
“Ensure that public service announcements include accurate and accessible closed captioning”.
Video can also aid in ADA compliance with a wide range of disabilities such as intellectual, mobility from wheelchair to walker, autism, PTSD and many others. Video, captions and audio voice overs also aids in accessibility to websites, along with newsletters, email, press releases, social media and all other content.
Video aids in compliance with Section 508 for content, according to the ADA “create barriers that make it difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to use websites and content”.
Companies can enhance their ADA compliance, with a Digital Video “Breaking News” Platform, to transform an office into a digital video newsroom, give anyone disabled and all others access to the video news room.
Allow confidential sources, whistle-blower’s, and anyone to post stories from anywhere at anytime for crime, sports, business, health, travel, entertainment, indepth, crisis communications along with any other news and information.
Provide confidentiality with no login, download or even a name required.
Digital newsrooms transform the publication, newspaper and wire service,
with video press releases to industry, business and company news, press conferences and video onsite to online events and thousands of other uses.
Using a single and multiple smartphones produce video news and events across multiple places and get multiple video interviews with video news produced from anywhere or at any time and with multi-channel streaming distribute them simultaneously globally.
A digital news platform provides unparalleled news access with fifty or more simultaneous TV channels to millions.
And bring “videotized” news releases and digital signs such as ADA required for hotels, schools, retailers, medical, office buildings, warehouses, factories in quick short-form videos from thousands of sources.
Take action today to bring together short-form and video streaming,
into a digital video newsroom platform to produce real accessible inclusive communications in more ways than ever possible.
For more on ADA website compliance visit
US visit – https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/
Canada visit – https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2023/2023-41.htm
United Nations visit – https://www.un.org/en/
India visit – https://www.india.gov.in/spotlight/unique-disability-id
France visit – https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/
Australia visit – https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/careers/working-with-us/careers-for-people-with-disabilities
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