Whose Voice is it Anyway?
I’m such a geek that I just love watching The Big Bang Theory on TV. The guys are often arguing about some nerdy topic like Star Trek, the space-time continuum, or String…
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Welcome to Global Accessibility Awareness Day Trivia!
As you may have guessed from the title, today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! If you don’t know what GAAD is, it is “to get everyone thinking and learning about digital…
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Driving While Blind
People with guide dogs can still drive, right? In my last post, I noted that I taught my guide dog, Darren, to bark for green and red, so I would know…
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Walking and Driving with Guide Dogs
Did you know there are only about 10,000 guide dogs in the United States? With only 0.003% of the population using a guide dog, it is understandable that people do…
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Activities happening in WAI with WCAG 2.1 Slides
Organizations are looking for mobile accessibility standards but is mobile different than desktop? Learn about activities happening in WAI with WCAG 2.1, Europe and around the world. Shadi Abou-Zahra from…
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Why Make Your Website Accessible – A Personal Story
When you think about accessibility, does your mind often wander to disabled parking spots or curb cuts for wheelchair access; perhaps even the large, disabled stall with cold, silver metal…
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Masterplanning the Digital Campus to Support Learners with Disabilities
Organizations that deliver online learning must be strategic and holistic in their accessibility approach, ensuring all necessary structures are in place to support accessible and equitable experiences for learners with disabilities. Responsibility for accessibility must be distributed appropriately across all stakeholder groups. By adopting stewardship activities common in physical campuses, a more strategic approach can be applied to the digital campus. Masterplanning the digital campus means addressing near-term activities with a long view—one that takes into account the underlying infrastructure as well as the surface-level structures where people engage more directly in the learning process. This paper presents foundational activities around policy, process, programs, and practice that are necessary to support the creation of a sustainable, accessible online learning environment.
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Accessibility for Business and Pleasure
Can we rethink accessibility in more effective and sustainable terms—ones that generate a positive return on investment for providers and a pleasurable user experience for everyone?
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Selecting Representative Pages – Starting Your Accessibility Audit
OBJECTIVES OF WEB ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT The audit is based on a set of carefully selected pages that represent the type of content, technologies, and interactions found across the whole site….
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Section 508 Compliance Services for Government
A TRUSTED SOURCE FOR SECTION 508 COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS TPGi is a consulting company specializing in accessibility for websites, web and mobile applications, and documents. We are internationally-recognized experts in accessibility…
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Accessibility Statistics
57 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE A DISABILITY According to the new figures released by the Census Bureau on July 25, 2012, 56.7 million Americans (18.7% of the U.S. population) have some…
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Accessibility Abbreviations
Updated: May 28, 2024 Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms Related to accessibility and disability Related to organizations, departments and agencies Related to legislation, regulations, and standards All relate to USA unless…
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The First Public Working Draft of Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module Published
The First Public Working Draft of Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 was published by the Protocols and Formats Working Group in coordination with the Digital Publishing Interest Group. The specification extends WAI-ARIA 1.1 to define Ontology…
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iOS & Android Screen Reader Gesture Reference Cheatsheet in French
In April Interactive Accessibility’s CEO Kathy Wahlbin posted a blog with iOS and Android Screen Reader Gesture Reference Cheatsheets. The blog caught the attention of a French accessibility blog, Atalan Le Blog.
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Fear-Based Incentives or System 2 Thinking: Which Accessibility Road Will You Choose?
A few weeks ago, several of us were in Florence, Italy attending the annual W4A conference when we received great news about the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-B): the US Department…
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Complementing Standards by Demonstrating Commitment and Progress
Improving web accessibility can be challenging, particularly for organizations with large, complex digital estates and internal organizational structures. Efforts can be guided by technical standards, but there are shortcomings with treating accessibility for people with disabilities as a compliance effort. Using the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design as an approach to remediation of accessibility barriers in the built environment as a parallel, we explore an approach to improving digital accessibility that places value on conscious, pragmatic decision-making and sharing of evidence of progress.
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New Chrome Accessibility Extensions
In a May 9, 2015 article PC Magazine summarized two new extensions for Chrome that allow users to customize their experience on web pages: Color Enhancer – helps users with color blindness better…
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iOS & Android Screen Reader Gesture Reference Cheatsheet
Mobile Accessibility is critical to reaching all audiences. A product is accessible when a person with a disability can have an experience equivalent to that of a person without a…
