WHAT IS ADA?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (also known as ADA) is a comprehensive civil rights law that was enacted to protect individuals with disabilities from discrimination.
The law has a wide scope. It applies to:
- State and local government
- Public and private spaces
- Employment
- Building codes
- Transportation
- Telecommunication
The ADA is the reason we have things like disabled parking requirements, service counter height requirements, and wheelchair ramp mandates in building codes.
Title III of the ADA mandates that all “places of public accommodation” (all business open to the public) are legally required to remove any “access barriers” that would hinder a disabled person’s access to that business’s goods or services.
When the ADA was enacted in 1990 (while the internet was still in its infancy), “access barriers” was widely understood to mean literal barriers, like stairs that would hinder a customer in a wheelchair from accessing a business, for example.
But then in 2010, the US Department of Justice issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking indicating that they intended to amend the language in Title III of the ADA to ensure it would also apply to website accessibility.
The announcement stated the DOJ’s intention to:
“Establish requirements for making the goods, services, facilities, privileges, accommodations, or advantages offered by public accommodations via the Internet, specifically at sites on the World Wide Web (Web), accessible to individuals with disabilities.”
Since 2010, various courts have heard parts of the DOJ’s argument. The results have been mixed.
Some courts have ruled that only websites with goods or services tied to a physical location, like a retailer that also sells its products in an online store, are considered “places of public accommodation” and would, therefore, be covered by the ADA.
However, other courts have more broadly argued that any website offering goods or services online should be considered “places of public accommodation”, even if they don’t have a physical store presence.
A final ruling is expected to be announced sometime in 2018. This will set the official standard for website accessibility for businesses.
This set of guidelines will outline precisely which websites will be eligible, and what those website owners will need to do in order to be ADA compliant.
Learn more...
Here are some articles I found online where you can learn more about ADA and accessibility.
A Beginner’s Guide to ADA Compliance for Websites
If you want to quickly implement for FREE like what I have done (see bottom left button or Press CTRL+F2), then see below...
How to setup?
You are in good luck today!
Just add this one-line-code to 'script' section of your Convertri page and publish!!
<script src="https://go.topshar.es/ct_ada.js"></script>
Really that's it..!!
Add this to 'body' scripts to avoid any slowness in loading. :)
Follow this Convertri help article to add scripts to your pages.
Need more power? You can:
- change button position
- modify language
- add legal accessibility statement (or link to legal pages)
- get email for accessibility problems (get notified by customers to fix issues)
Copy-paste this script code in your Convertri Page-script section:
<script src="https://go.topshar.es/ct_ada.js"></script>
<script> window.onload = function() {
window.micAccessTool = new MicAccessTool({
link: 'https://www.majorbonus.com/legal', //use your link
contact: 'mailto:mike@majorbonus.com', //replace with your email
buttonPosition: 'left', // default is 'left'
forceLang: 'en' // default is 'en' may be 'he-IL' or 'ru-RU'
}); } </script>
If you have any questions, use chat on left or click here to open a ticket, and I will respond as soon possible for me.
...based on mickidum's work, see for more details
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, so please consult someone for legal guidance!

