Build and Maintain an Accessible School Website
Finalsite provides easy-to-use tools and services to make building and maintaining an accessible website easy.
Our Holistic Approach to Website Accessibility
To us, website accessibility isn't just about laws and regulations — it is about doing the right thing. Our goal is to ensure that every one of your website visitors has the same great experience no matter what — which is why we're dedicated to ensuring your website is accessible from the ground up.
What makes Finalsite's approach different from our competitors is not only the passion we bring to our projects, but the knowledge, structure, and testing that goes into them as well. Our designers and developers are trained in layout, content, structural and navigational requirements of web accessibility, and craft our websites with a keen attention to detail. Every site goes through a formal Quality Assurance process to ensure we've met essential WCAG requirements, and the in-house accessibility experts on our Support Team make sure that accessibility is maintained as your site develops and grows.
Your Website Is in Good Hands
Experienced Designers
Our team of designers are trained to ensure your site is accessible from the ground up (and still looks great).
Website Accessibility Committee
Our accessibility committee spans all departments, and brings together forward-thinking individuals who care about your district.
Dedicated Accessibility Specialist
When you work with Finalsite, you'll have a dedicated accessibility specialist to ensure your project is successful from start to finish.
Free Training & Resources
Our trained, in-house accessibility specialists provide ongoing training on web accessibility and compliance.
Accessibility-Friendly Functionality
Adding alt text, video captions, video transcripts, and structural elements is easy with Composer.
Ongoing, Knowledgeable Support
Our friendly, completely in-house support team stays up-to-date with WCAG requirements so that your site does, too.
Finalsite & AudioEye
Accessibility Certification
The trusted certification illustrates your district's commitment to accessibility and lets visitors know you are continually striving to maintain accessibility.
OCR Mitigation
If you're already in a lawsuit with the OCR, AudioEye will provide the legal guidance and support to help you win.
Managed Service
Accessibility errors that cannot automatically be fixed will be manually fixed by one of AudioEye's Accessibility Engineers.
Help Desk Functionality
AudioEye is the only tool that provides a digital help desk, which allows website visitors to submit accessibility errors and/or concerns directly to AudioEye.
Ally Toolbar
The Ally toolbar provides screen reading technology and other tools to provide an optimized user experience for all visitors.
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AVON GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT
"With an OCR complaint, even if you win, you lose. There's all types of associated fees with it. For Avon Grove, we wanted to avoid an OCR complaint at all costs — but we didn't have the time, resources, or formally-trained personnel to do so. Finalsite and AudioEye gave us an affordable, workable solution for accessibility that saves us time and money — and we don't have to do the heavy lifting."
Gary Mattei
Director of Technology
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
"AudioEye's technology-first approach to digital accessibility has proven effective from the very start and should serve as a trusted model for all school districts seeking to conform with ADA-related laws and striving to ensure the highest level of access and usability. When it comes to identifying issues of accessibility, the test results are reliable and accurate; when it comes to fixing issues of accessibility, the AudioEye remediation technology is cost-effective and the impact is immediate."
Michael Miller
Accessibility Coordinator
Resources for ADA Compliance and Website Accessibility
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Upcoming Webinars
EST (NYC TIME)
Get a front-row seat for a LIVE demo of Composer, Finalsite's CMS —exclusively for SchoolPointe clients!
Built with simplicity and schools in mind, Finalsite's Composer empowers everyone in your community to create beautiful, professional-looking pages. Our CMS built just for schools provides the simplicity and security website managers require, without sacrificing design quality, functionality, performance, or website accessibility.
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EST (NYC TIME)
When did your school most recently update its enrollment agreement? Does the enrollment agreement address parental comportment, force majeure and other hot topics?
In this lively and interactive webinar, Sara Schwartz will explore the key elements of creating a legally enforceable enrollment agreement, common traps that independent schools ought to avoid when drafting and enforcing enrollment agreements, and best practices for switching from paper enrollment agreements to online enrollment agreements. Please note: this webinar will not be recorded or shared so please plan to attend live.
EST (NYC TIME)
Join Finalsite to find out what's next for school and district web design in 2022 during a live webinar on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.
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