Steven Richards

Steven Richards writes about digital accessibility and regulatory compliance, including ADA Title II and Title III conformance, WCAG 2.1 and 2.2, Section 508 procurement, and document remediation at scale.

He has worked through Section 508 procurement, large document remediation backlogs, and the testing workflows around tools like Acrobat Pro and automated scanners. His focus stays on what reduces legal exposure without making the site worse for the people it is meant to serve.

The argument running through his writing is that compliance belongs in the workflow from the start. Retrofitting accessibility costs several times more than designing for it, and the defects that cause lawsuits are usually the ones a template would have prevented.