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…
This is Getting Doggone Ridiculous!
Here we go…still! Last week I posted about The “ABC” of Accessibility Services. The gist of that post was to highlight that, with the increase in awareness around creating and maintaining accessible digital content and the number of newcomers now…
The “ABC” of Accessibility Services
Digital Accessibility Awareness Is on the Rise The subject of digital content accessibility has grown in popularity. Many organizations and businesses who never thought about accessibility are now aware that they should be focusing on and creating accessible content, even…
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…
Web Accessibility – Who is Responsible?
Is it you or someone else? In our decades of working with various groups on digital accessibility, one thing has become very clear – most feel that addressing accessibility is someone else’s responsibility. When it comes to web specific content,…
Accessibility Testing and iFrames
Keeping an Eye on the iFrame A few weeks ago, my colleague Ken Nakata, was talking with a colleague at a digital publishing house about the new accessibility test scripts that we developed in WebAlign. These are designed to enable…
Why Can Manual Accessibility Testing Take Longer Than Expected?
AKA The Pitfalls of Accessibility Testing Have you ever had a simple project around the house that spiraled out of control? For example, that dripping bathroom faucet. Along with that constant drip…drip…drip, there is also a nagging voice reminding you…