The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was originally signed into law in 1990. It is a civil rights measure intended to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. For businesses, the most important part of that act is Title III, which covers public accommodations, which also impacts private businesses.
According to Title III of the ADA, your business must be accessible to both the public and to your employees. The list of requirements can seem overwhelming, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid making the changes required by law. Beyond exposing yourself to potential lawsuits, not complying with the ADA cuts you off from potential customers and employees.
Here are some of the ways that you can help to improve your building’s accessibility.
Identify Potential Barriers
Identifying barriers within your building is one of the most obvious aspects of ADA compliance. Yet they’re also among the most frequently cited areas under the ADA, usually due to oversights or the cost of compliance.
You can start improving your accessibility by simply taking a walk through your building and looking for potential barriers for employees and customers with disabilities. Will a wheelchair fit through all the doors in your building? Are there stairs without ramps or alternative modes to access upper floors, like elevators? And if you do have ramps, are they an appropriate grade or do they slope too steeply to be functional?

A web design agency will take care of everything to do with setting up a website. From design to development to choosing a hosting provider, your job is to get everything set up for your clients. It can be a lot of work, but you’ll have yourself a lucrative business if done correctly.
This article will show you the steps you need to take to get your web design agency off the ground.
Step 1: Find a Suitable Host
As a web design company, you’ll be offering your clients a package that includes web hosting. Ideally, you’ll have multiple customers who will need a host, so you want to choose a provider to handle your various clients’ needs. Many companies offer hosting for design agencies. Two of the most common hosting plans for agencies are VPS and reseller. A VPS plan will allow you to enjoy better performance, improved res, and full root access. This will give you a lot of freedom to install the scripts and apps you need and fine-tune the server environment to meet your exact business needs. However, if you have less than 250 customers, a cost-effective hosting option is reseller hosting. This would allow you to control the features and res you allocate to your customers, but you would be limited to what comes standard with the plan.
Step 2: Choose a Content Management System (CMS)

While initial enrolment at colleges and universities has risen in recent years, retention of students beyond their first year of study has dropped significantly. Students beginning their college and university years face unique social challenges, increasing diversity in student populations mean many students needs are being overlooked, and professors and instructors have more competition for their student’s attention than ever before. All these factors and more should be part of the thought-process behind the design of any student engagement strategy.
Connected, Yet Disconnected
While in many ways today’s students are seen as members of one of the most connected generations ever, their digital connections often come at the cost of analogy i.e., interpersonal connections. Multiple studies have reported student concerns surrounding feelings of isolation and loneliness in their early days on campus, a problem which is especially acute for students not living in residences, students pursuing degrees online, and students with no prior social contacts at their school.
When left unaddressed, these feelings can to lead students to leaving without completing their degrees. While events such as welcome weeks are great initial solutions for this problem, long-term strategies for engaging students not only with their coursework, but also each other, are equally important.
New Students, New Supports

Calling a small-town ski resort community my home has some distinct advantages. Most of the time I adore being hours away from the smoggy metropolis of Los Angeles. I can only take the concrete jungle of southern California in very small doses. Life in Big Bear Lake in the pine forest can make me feel like we don’t reside in the ass-backwards state of California where our liberal governor can go out to Michelon star dinners with friends in Napa but govern the rest of the state with an iron fist during this pandemic. According to the comrade, I mean Governor Newsom it’s okay for his wineries to be open and he can enjoy birthday dinners with all his liberal friends while close to three million Californians are out of work during this pandemic in California from all the businesses that can’t stay open.
Living beneath the pines of southern California helps me forget for just an hour or two what a shitshow this state is. Maybe it’s breathing in the fresh clean air. Or maybe it’s that we finally managed to adopt two almost perfect kittens this fall. Fluffy purring kittens can bring a little zen to our household even during the stress of a pandemic.
Being in the wilderness also helps me forget about the assholes who rule this blue state. I can walk out my front door and within just a five-minute stroll my pup and I can be frolicking in fresh snow in the woods. It’s so peaceful to walk in the freshly fallen snow with nothing but the sounds of the birds in the trees, the squirrels in the bush and me yelling at my dog. It almost makes me forget about how stupid our politicians are in this trash can of a state.