Don’t Shoot the Messenger Over the last 15+ years I have regularly presented at accessibility conferences and have also conducted several training sessions on the topic of creating accessible digital content. More than once I have been told by some…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 8)
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…
State of Montana Digital Accessibility Roundtable
What is it? This week Greg Rogers, formerly with Outlook Business Solutions, and myself have the honor of presenting at the State of Montana Digital Accessibility Roundtable. We have been invited to speak on the topic of “Demystifying Digital Accessibility…
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…
Screen Magnifiers Are No Longer The Only Option For Low Vision Users: What Are They Using?A Guest Blog Post by James Warnken
TL;DR Here’s a question for accessibility experts: what technologies do low vision users actually use in 2022? I surveyed hundreds of low vision users through social media and learned that the assumption that low vision users only use screen magnifiers…
A Different View into Accessibility Overlays
Something Old, Something New A Google search for “do accessibility overlays work” will provide you with several websites that mostly put accessibility overlays/plug-ins in a negative space. This isn’t new information and probably doesn’t come as a surprise. There are…
How to Document Accessibility Issues – Part 2
Get Noticed This is part 2 of the series on How to Document Accessibility Issues. As mentioned in part 1, documenting accessibility issues is a critical, but often overlooked skill. While documenting issues is not ‘fun’ and can also be…
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DEI Program Presentation A couple of weeks ago, we had the privilege of presenting with some friends at the 37th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity. One of the sessions Ken presented live with Natalie Hadley from…
How to Document Accessibility Issues – Part 1
Manual Accessibility Testing Complexity Manual accessibility audits tend to be complex undertakings because the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for many to understand and to know how to fully test. A comprehensive manual audit usually requires…
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…