About TecAccess

From the Department of Labor, New Freedom Initiative Award Web Site

TecAccess is the leading provider of professional IT/Web accessibility and usability testing, consulting, and training services to commercial, government, and educational organizations. In addition, we offer award-winning disability staffing programs and marketing support that allows our clients to:

• Meet their accessibility and staffing goals
• Maximize their ROI
• Expand their consumer base
• Avoid litigation
• Tap into new markets

We are an SBA 8(a) Certified, Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB), Virginia SWaM, and Woman-Owned Company with international reach. All of our associates are expert accessibility consultants, many of whom have disabilities ranging from cognitive to physical disabilities. This uniquely positions us to realistically evaluate compliance, accessibility, and usability from the perspective of people with disabilities. To say that TecAccess is a diverse company is an understatement; our associates have disabilities such as cerebral palsy, brain injury, quadriplegia, diabetes, bipolar disorder, macular degeneration, visual impairment, blindness, and hearing loss and deafness, just to name a few. We are also a leading employer of disabled veterans.

TecAccess has implemented accessibility strategies for clients all over the world. We provide a unique suite of accessibility solutions, with a focus on Section 508, 504 and the ADA. From testing and remediating software and web applications to helping clients conform to industry regulations and standards, we are the most awarded consultancy in the industry. In addition, we assist clients with targeted marketing solutions, focus groups, and usability studies along with leading keynote speakers for conferences and symposiums.

TecAccess is proud to serve a growing client base -- for example; AOL, Canon USA, Thompson NETg, Peregrine Systems, US Patent and Trademark Office, US Dept. of Education, US Marine Corps, George Washington University, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Kansas, and many more. In addition, TecAccess has been asked to speak on Section 508 Compliance, IT Accessibility issues, and disability employment all over the world. Organizations that have requested presentations have included:

• The European Commission in Brussels
• Federal Government´s Section 508 Coordinators
• National E-Gov Conference
• GSA PBX Conference
• E-Learning and Training Week
• Accessibility Leadership Forum
• The Commonwealth of Virginia´s Roadmap to Accessibility
• And many others.

For these efforts, TecAccess and its Founder - Ms. Debra Ruh, have received numerous international awards such as the "New Freedom Initiative" from the President of the United States, "Virginia Minority Small Business Person of the Year" from the Small Business Administration, the "Career Award" from Lighthouse International, "Rising Star" by the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Trailblazer Award by Wells Fargo, Community Leader Award by Northrop Grumman, Outstanding Achievement Award by Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, Social Justice Award by America-China Foundation, and the "Leadership Award" by Women in Technology (WIT).

TecAccess Mission

Our mission in business is two-fold:

• TecAccess will succeed as a professional services company by delivering best-in-class accessibility and workforce solutions.
• TecAccess will empower employees with disabilities, uniquely placing its skilled workforce in a position to realistically evaluate compliance, accessibility, and usability.

We meet these goals by delivering an award-winning suite of services, all of which strive to promote a "knowledge transfer" to our clients´ business and technical staff.

Our team of international accessibility experts want to help you meet your immediate business requirements, and to help your business management and technical teams understand how and where to modify your internal business processes and methods to achieve fully accessible IT/Web products on a continuing basis. In addition, our consultancy offers organizations a strategic plan and quality labor pool that can bolster your workforce through the hiring of talented employees with disabilities, including disabled veterans.

In addition, we work with clients to create a Section 508 compliant infrastructure that results in a faster and more effective service delivery that saves millions annually. Our award-winning consulting, training, auditing, and testing services have unequivocally proven the ROI and value of accessibility initiatives, such as Section 508 and W3C. Our clients routinely widen their customer base by making their electronic and information technology (E&IT) accessible to everyone, in turn increasing their market share, profitability, and fiscal efficiency.

We accomplish these goals by clearly communicating the benefits of developing accessible products to your management teams, and by working directly with your technical teams to identify the technical deficiencies we identify in the course of our work, how to remediate these deficiencies effectively, and how to avoid such pitfalls in future design, development, and maintenance activities.

With TecAccess as a partner you´ll be a leader in compliance, accessibility, usability, and disability employment.

What Makes TecAccess Unique?

As a company, TecAccess is uniquely positioned to undertake the challenge of developing creative accessibility and workforce solutions because we are composed of the very individuals for whom disability employment initiatives and accessibility legislation, such as Section 508, were designed. The majority of TecAccess associates are people with disabilities, including disabled veterans. As such, we possess the inherent capability of realistically evaluating accessibility and compliance technology, as well as disability employment solutions, from the perspective of the target audience - people with disabilities.

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