What does WACT mean in UNIVERSITIES

A web access compliance team is group of professionals whose responsibility is to ensure that all websites and applications are designed with the goal of ensuring equal access for users with any type of physical or mental disability.

WACT works to identify barriers in accessibility, both technical and operational; develop and implement effective strategies and solutions to overcome those barriers; monitor progress over time and provide feedback on success; and advocate for accessible technology usage within organizations.

WACT helps create and maintain websites that are accessible to users with all types of physical, cognitive, literacy, hearing, vision, mobility, learning, communication and other disabilities. Some common disabilities include deafness or hard-of-hearing individuals; blindness or partial sighted people; mobility limitations requiring the use of wheelchairs or walkers; limited use of one hand or arm; dyslexia (a difficulty in reading); difficulty understanding texts due to language impairments.

Making your website more accessible ensures that everyone can utilize it fully no matter what their abilities are. Additionally, an accessible website provides a better user experience for everyone. Moreover, it will increase the number of potential customers or users who can access your website content and functionality regardless of their disabilities.

The best way to make sure your site complies is to work with a qualified web design developer who understands the current web accessibility standards like WCAG 2.0 / WAI-ARIA 1.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). This team should also be familiar with industry best practices such as semantic markup language coding techniques that not only meet the standard but also enhance usability for all users.

Web Compliance teams usually use automated tools combined with manual testing approaches in order to assess accessibility on web pages against the World Wide Web Consortium's accessibility guidelines (WCAG) as well as other related regulations such as Section 508 standards. However if you’re unsure whether your site meets these standards you should contact a professional web access compliance team for assistance.

One challenge associated with making sites compliant is having outdated technologies on the website which may prevent certain features from functioning properly without adjustments being made by developers familiar in this area. Additionally there might be conflicting interests between different stakeholders regarding aspects which may impact accessibility performance such as branding, layout preferences etc., other challenges involve compatibility issues across browsers or devices as well as potential legislative restrictions.

It depends on your specific requirements however generally speaking modernizing existing sites requires a combination of new design approaches along with custom development efforts which will incur additional costs.