Ploud WCAG Compliance document (ADA)

Content management platform indemnification is uncommon in accessibility-related cases due to its complexity. For Ploud, we focus on proactive compliance measures where the best defense against lawsuits is ensuring websites meet accessibility standards through audits, remediation, and adherence to WCAG guidelines. This reduces the likelihood of legal action and demonstrates reasonable faith efforts toward compliance.

We are constantly updating our templates to have increasingly valid WCAG 2.1AA compliance and try to quickly fix issues when found by either third-party scanning tools or our customers. 

We don't 'certify' Ploud to be fully ADA compliant because that certification expires on the date that it was issued and isn't relevant to any future issues that may change within the WCAG guidelines or the interpretation of those guidelines by third-party tools or testing individuals.

Some third-party website tools can be added to them that can true-up/force the website to be compliant and provide extra tools for users to either navigate the site or, more easily, view content. One such third-party tool is called Userway: https://userway.org/.

We try to achieve compliance out of the box with Ploud templates, but most compliance is achieved through website content managers' proper content management. 

As a side note, Many third-party website scripts, such as book catalog carousels, etc., are often not ADA compliant, and using that non-compliant can put you at risk, so we recommend that your partnerships with those entities include asking them to ensure the content they provide on the website uses WCAG standards for compliance.

I hope that helps,