Page Titles This is Part 8 of our “First Steps to An Accessible Website” blog series! This post is going to focus on page titles (i.e., the title element). Why? Because… page titles are critical in helping users quickly identify…
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First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 7)
Keyboard Testing Welcome to Part 7 of our “First Steps to An Accessible Website” blog series! This post is focused on an often-overlooked critical part of an accessible website – keyboard support! Keyboard accessibility is something automated accessibility scanning tools…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 6)
Programmatically Labeled Forms Welcome to Part 6 in our First Steps to an Accessible Website series! We are getting close to wrapping up this blog series and with this post we are turning our attention to form labels. When it…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 5)
Descriptive Link Text This is Part 5 of our “First Steps to An Accessible Website” blog series! In this post we are going to review how to describe the purpose of a link using its link text and its surrounding…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 4)
Web Page Headings It has been some time since our last post on the topic, “First Steps to An Accessible Website” and we are happy to be able to turn our attention once again to this topic! In Part 1…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 3)
Welcome Back! In Part 1 we discussed having an Accessibility Statement on your website. In Part 2 we covered making sure that images on your website have an appropriate ALT attribute. Just those two actions alone can greatly reduce the…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2! In Part 1, we discussed the importance and function of an Accessibility Statement. Once you have your Accessibility Statement in place, it is time to focus on some of the most common and basic accessibility issues…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 1)
Web accessibility seems to be a hot topic for many today. That may be due to the rise of legal complaints targeting inaccessible websites or that many companies are realizing that offering their goods and services online is an important…
Housing Providers and Accessible Websites
How This All Started At the beginning of the week, I had a really interesting call with a residential property manager in southern California. This prompted a series of calls with my fellow DOJ alumni, Marc Dubin because he has a…
Is There Such a Thing as an “ADA Compliant” Website?
What’s All the Fuss About? I’m going to go on a little rant here, so please bear with me… As everyone knows, lawyers can be real sticklers when it comes to wording and I’m no exception. So when I hear…