BentoBox’s Digital Accessibility Features

You wouldn’t design a restaurant entrance some of your customers couldn’t access, right? Of course not. Making sure every customer can enjoy your restaurant is critical to establishing a strong brand and building relationships with regulars.

Well, the same goes for your restaurant’s website. Accessibility is just as important for your digital front door as it is for your building.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in four Americans live with “a disability that impacts major life activities.” Making your web presence accessible to as many of these potential customers as possible requires digital accessibility technology: platforms and features that enable users with disabilities to navigate, understand, and interact with digital content like text and images. Digital accessibility technology goes a long way to minimizing your exposure to lawsuits brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.

With BentoBox, digital accessibility technology for restaurant websites is more convenient than ever. The ADA Essentials and ADA Plus plans ensure that people using assistive technology are able to experience your restaurant online the same way they can enjoy an in-person experience that accords to ADA regulations.

Understanding ADA compliance

BentoBox’s web accessibility products are provided by AudioEye, a developer of digital accessibility tools. Partnering with AudioEye ensures that every ADA Essentials and ADA Plus customer benefits from the industry-leading technology and support that can only be offered by a team that specializes in digital accessibility technology.

Although BentoBox and AudioEye provide in-depth support in the event it is needed, no digital assistive technology can eliminate the risk of lawsuit under the ADA. Businesses also need to follow best practices on a continual basis to minimize their risk of lawsuit.

Think of ADA compliance like home security: while safety can never be guaranteed, the right technology combined with the right behaviors lower the risk of an adverse event dramatically.

ADA Essentials and ADA Plus

With BentoBox’s ADA plans, it’s like you’ve moved your website to a gated community, installed an alarm system, and hired security guards. Want to see how? Here’s what BentoBox’s ADA Essentials and ADA Plus packages contain.

Automated testing & fixes

Automatically checks for over 400 accessibility test outcomes & 70+ automated fixes, ensuring that visitors to your website get a more accessible experience automatically.

24/7 active monitoring

Continuously monitors your site for new accessibility issues, so you can flag and fix problems in real time. This is especially important for when you change site content and for monitoring dynamic or personalized content when a user logs in.

Visual toolkit

Provides robust customization to let website visitors easily correct accessibility issues like colors, contrasts, font sizes, and spacing.

Accessibility statement

An optional (but recommended) statement that can be published on your site to show your ongoing commitment to digital accessibility and inclusive experiences.

AudioEye Trusted Certification Badge

Certifies that your website is providing a commitment to accessibility and digital inclusion and details AudioEye’s Representations & Warranties.

ADA Plus Only

These are among the additional services only available with the ADA Plus package.

Manual site testing

Unlocks a new level of coverage with monthly audits by trained accessibility experts, who conduct a thorough evaluation of the website templates using assistive technologies to identify and detail errors that Live Monitoring may not capture.

Advanced legal support

AudioEye’s legal support team will provide a custom response to a lawsuit that can be provided to the plaintiff's council. AudioEye will also fully remediate new validated issues on the site so that site owners will be able to show consistent progress and intent to be accessible.

Cookie consent management 

Cookies are small text files that contain data about website visitors. Due to privacy laws, restaurants can be vulnerable to legal action if diners don’t have a way to choose how cookies are placed on their web browser. With this feature, you give diners more control over how they’re tracked when they visit your website, which builds trust with your restaurant.