Using the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to Build Capacity
2020 is the year the web got real, and digital accessibility capacity is needed now, more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are shifting our lives from…
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Website Accessibility Audit
Updated 11/7/2023 Many companies understand that digital accessibility is essential to reach more customers and meet legal guidelines, yet still have questions about how to make digital assets compliant. That’s…
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Challenges to digital accessibility now and in the future
Earlier this summer, I was invited to give a talk at an event organized by the Ed-ICT research consortium, in Milton Keynes, UK. Ed-ICT is an international collective of researchers…
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EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites and Mobile Applications
The European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications requires EU member states to make sure their websites and mobile apps meet common accessibility standards. The…
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The Right Information at the Right Time, But How?
The Internet is chock full of information. It’s more than just an information Superhighway, it is the lifeblood of the social and business universe. The true backbone of the Internet…
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Section 508 Refresh (Part 2)
Updated 6/29/2023 In Part 1 of our Section 508 Refresh, we focused on the background, history and highlighted some of the key changes influencing the revised Section 508 standards. In…
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Easy steps for including disabled people in your workforce
Are you tapping into the valued and valuable workforce of people with disabilities? Over my 20 years in accessibility I have seen over and over that organizations are not prepared…
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The Accessibility Maturity Model and Upcoming IAAP Webinar
Not long after I had gotten off a call with Kathy discussing her upcoming IAAP webinar, Where is Your Organization on the Accessibility Maturity Scale, I was sitting on my back deck…
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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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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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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…
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Is Accessibility a Supply or Demand Issue?
Jim Tobias has me thinking….Is the 508 Refresh delay a Supply (Industry) or a Demand (Government) issue? For years I’ve been advocating for economic stimulus and price subsidies – Federal/State…
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iOS Accessibility Video Tutorials
We recently posted some videos on the Access Matters blog about setting up and using TalkBack, which is the pre-installed screen reader service provided by Google for Android devices. It occurred…