2025 And Still The Only ADA Compliance Training For Websites

On August 6, 2022, I published the first book on ADA compliance for the digital world (The ADA Book). A year later, I followed that up with the first course on how to reduce risk of an ADA compliance lawsuit (ADA Compliance Course).

As of 2025, both of these materials remain the only resources of their kind.

When it comes to advice on how to make your website ADA compliant, you’ll find that virtually every guide recommends making your website WCAG 2.1 AA or 2.2 AA conformant. While this is true, best practice for ADA compliance is to make your website fully conformant with one of those standards.

As simple as running through a WCAG checklist may seem, it’s not as easy in practice, when you actually have to account for each instance of each issue and fix it.

There are a lot of accessibility considerations to work through and if you’re striving for full conformance, an audit (that costs 4-figures) is required to identify all issues. And beyond that, working through an entire audit report can take upwards of 5 months.

The ADA Compliance Course addresses several realities:

  • Many small businesses owners can’t afford an audit
  • Some accessibility issues are much more likely to lead to a lawsuit than others
  • Some accessibility issues don’t align completely with WCAG
  • Immediate action and aggressiveness yields ROI in decreasing risk
  • Website owners need step-by-step instructions to give their team / contractors

This happens because the course is built on what I call practical compliance. The term practical compliance comes from the fact that when most website owners ask, “How do I make my website ADA compliant?,” what they’re really asking is, “How do I not get sued?”

This course gives you this answer by laying out strategy and then prioritizing the issues you / your team needs to fix first. Not only does the course give you an exact prioritization of issues, but there are also detailed instructions on how to find each issue and remediate or fix it (with code examples).

The beautiful design of the ADA Compliance Course is that as you work through the lessons and fix the corresponding issues, you improve the accessibility of your website while incrementally lowering your risk of being sued. And as you start to stack more and more fixes on top of each other, you really start to make your website unattractive to plaintiffs’ lawyers.

What’s important to keep in mind is that there approximately three dozen active plaintiffs’ law firms in this space and they file complaints in state and federal court over and over again. They have varying approaches in how they approach litigation, but what’s crystal clear is they trend towards claiming certain issues (and kinds of issues) over others.

I know this because I’ve read through hundreds of these complaints and in my last update to the ADA Compliance Course, I extracted claims from 35 recent complaints filed by the most active plaintiffs’ law firms and charted all of the most commonly claimed issues in an Excel spreadsheet (also inside the course).

Alt text related issues are the most common, but the next most popular issues were not as far behind as they used to be.

All of this data is inside the course and what’s great for website owners is so are the instructions that you can give to your web developer and/or content manager.

This course is precise and action oriented and exactly what I’d recommend to anyone who wants to immediately reduce their risk of being sued over website accessibility.

You can sign up for the course and take action right now on ADACompliance.net.

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Kris Rivenburgh

Kris Rivenburgh

Kris Rivenburgh is the founder of Accessible.org, LLC. Kris is an attorney and the author of The ADA Book, the first book on ADA compliance for digital assets. With seven years of experience in digital accessibility and ADA Compliance, Kris advises clients ranging from small businesses to public entities and Fortune 500 companies.