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7 Easy-to-Miss ADA Website Compliance Requirements - 2023 Update

Each year Utah State University’s Web AIM Million Project tests the top one million homepages for American Disability Act (ADA) website compliance. In 2022, they reported that a staggering 96.8% of homepages were not compliant, with an average of 51.4 barriers! 

In this blog post we’ll cover what Website Accessibility is, why it’s so important for schools to prioritize and 7 ADA compliance requirements pitfalls to make sure your website avoids this year.

5 Strategies to Include in Every School Marketing Plan [prioritized]

A well thought out marketing plan is an absolute must for schools looking to increase or maintain current rates of enrollment. It’s essential for schools to have a marketing plan in order to effectively admit and retain students. This is especially true in context with the ever changing social landscape and shrinking family sizes. An effective marketing plan for schools should outline overall objects, and most importantly highlight crucial advertising and branding elements that the school may need to improve upon.

What Foxbright Clients Say

- Vicksburg Community Schools "Our Head of Technology and I both marveled at how thorough, seamless, simple, and cost-efficient the site transfer process was last Fall and at how easy it is to maintain and change the site to fit our needs. Thank you for all you do to help us look good!"
- Saline Schools "The PD yesterday was awesome! The hybrid you did for us was great. It was short, quick and covered the areas we wanted to in a short time. Thank you for being flexible and rolling with our PD style yesterday. Excited to be ADA compliant."
- Walled Lake Consolidated School District "We interviewed a number of providers to find the best fit for the district. The clear winner was Foxbright. Our switch, transition and change to Foxbright was smooth. Foxbright was responsive, strategic and timely in the plan to make the change."
- Blissfield Community Schools "We have used Foxbright for almost 9 years now and have had a great working relationship with them. Responses are always quick and courteous."
- Saline Schools "When any issue comes up, the Foxbright support team is only an email or phone call away. They always respond very quickly to the issues which wasn't our experience with our last website vendor."
- Kent ISD “Foxbright is a technology company that knows how to communicate, rather than a communication company that dabbles in technology.”
- Wayland Union Schools "Our experience in working with Foxbright to create the new website was wonderful from start to finish. We finished the project under schedule and our parents, staff and community are happy with the new site."
- Byron Center Public Schools "We are very happy with this organization. They are great to work with! Sharp group of professionals and always helpful."
- Grosse Ile Township Schools “Foxbright gave us excellent guidance on putting together a website that works well, is easy to update, projects a highly professional image, and enables us to tout the benefits of Grosse Ile living.”
- Mona Shores Public Schools “Before we partnered with Foxbright, our website was home grown, and it showed.”
- Blissfield Community Schools "We recently did a redesign of our website and we are so pleased with the new web interface. Their interface is easy to use and intuitive. Foxbright continues to keep up with the trends and over the past 9 years there have been many new features and functions."
- Muskegon Area ISD "We been very satisfied with the quality and flexibility of Foxbright's CMS. We continue to enjoy a positive and creative partnership with Foxbright and look forward to implementing new features."
- Southfield Public Schools "It has been a joy and a pleasure to work with Foxbright because they are such a responsive company."
- Walled Lake Consolidated School District "Our switch, transition and change to Foxbright was smooth. Foxbright was responsive, strategic and timely in the plan to make the change."