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ADA Compliance & Accessibility

All Dinkytown.net calculators meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508 accessibility standards — among the most compliant financial calculators available anywhere.

ADA Compliance Shield

All calculators follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to meet accessibility specification WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508. As part of our process, in addition to applying WCAG standards to all of our programming, we also scan all calculators for compliance using the following tools:

SortSite:
https://www.powermapper.com/products/sortsite/

WebAim:
http://wave.webaim.org/

We have been refining our calculators' ability to work with screen readers since the release of Version 3 in 2014. In addition to meeting WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508 standards, we work hard to make sure they are actually usable to the sight impaired. As long as you keep applying the latest updates, you will always have the most accessible financial calculators available.

What is ADA Compliance?

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance for a website is usually defined as meeting the guidelines released by the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3.org) in its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 Level AA and meeting the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a set of guidelines set up by the World Wide Web Consortium to help bring accessibility considerations into web development. Accessibility guidelines were first released in 1999 as WCAG 1.0. WCAG 2.1 was published as a W3C recommendation on December 11, 2008, with a public working draft of WCAG 2.1 released in early 2017. Each release defines what the W3C considers best practice for accessible websites, with conformance levels of A, AA, and AAA — each bringing more stringent requirements. Meeting WCAG 2.1 Level AA is the generally accepted standard for ADA compliance.

“Section 508” refers to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. This law requires that government agencies purchase electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. While it only directly applies to government agencies, it can affect any business doing work for or providing services used by the government. The Section 508 standards borrow heavily from WCAG 2.1.

A proposed regulation first introduced by the Department of Justice in 2012, and repeatedly postponed, was set to take effect in 2018 to formally define website ADA compliance as WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508. Unfortunately it was given a status of “inactive” by the Department of Justice in November 2017. It is highly likely that WCAG 2.1 Level AA and Section 508 will ultimately become the standard — most likely through court precedent rather than regulation.

Need More Help?

If you have a specific financial calculator on your site where you have an ADA question please feel free to contact us — we would be glad to help!

More information can be found at:

Please contact support with any questions when deploying or using the calculators. Reach us by email at or by phone at (612) 331-2291.