Thirteen Years Less One! It is time for the Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference! This is the 36th conference since its beginning. While that is an accomplishment just by itself, this year also marks a new milestone for the CSUN…
Author: Jeff Singleton
The Right Way to Accessibility Accountability
Why This Matters to You If you sell digital content or applications to a university or to the public sector, this discussion matters a lot. The approach taken by CSU is a best practice and this presentation indicates how more…
Viewpoint: Don’t Miss the Accessibility Forest for The Trees
Step Back and Get a Perspective You may have heard the saying, “Can’t see the forest for the trees”. That saying is applied to situations where a person is focused on the small details to such a degree that they…
Practical Steps Toward Web Accessibility and Reducing Liability Risk
Where to Begin? Have you been tasked with bringing your organization’s web presence into compliance with the web content accessibility guidelines? Not sure where or how to start? You should have attended our webinar with 3PlayMedia on January 14, 2021!…
Accessibility Overlays – Ignorance is Not Bliss
Accessibility Overlay, Widget, Toolbar, Menu, etc. Recently, I have had several discussions about accessibility overlays with various clients. These are often called by different names, such as: Accessibility Widget Accessibility Toolbar Accessibility Overlay Accessibility Menu Accessibility Plug-in etc. For our…
Viewpoint: Are You a Victim of Accessibility Foolishness?How to enable the ability to test the keyboard in Safari on Mac
The Situation Some weeks ago, I received a notice that we had a new sign up for our mailing list. I typically do not look at these notices because recently there have been a lot of people signing up, but…
Join Our Upcoming Webinar
Reserve Your Spot Now! Join Us and 3PlayMedia For Our Joint Webinar(January 14 at 2PM Eastern) We are again hosting a joint webinar with our friends at 3PlayMedia, an industry leader in captioning services. A Chinese proverb states, “A journey…
Viewpoint: Disabled User Testing
Using Disabled Users for Accessibility Testing As mentioned in Ken’s initial post for this series, there are strong opinions about how accessibility testing should be performed and by whom. We are often asked if our accessibility reviews are done by…
Converge Accessibility is at Accessing Higher Ground!
What? This week marks the start of the 23rd Annual Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web & Technology Conference; for Higher Education, Business and the Public Sphere. Converge Accessibility is honored to be able to support this year’s conference as…
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…