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Join Our Upcoming Webinar with 3PlayMedia

Reserve Your Spot Now! Join Us and 3PlayMedia!!! APOLOGIES for the late notice!!! At 2pm EST on Tuesday June 8, we are presenting at 3PlayMedia’s ACCESS at Home Webinar Conference. 3PlayMedia is an industry leader in captioning services. We have been asked…

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Legal Update: May 2021

Welcome to the second in my series of monthly updates on web accessibility legal developments—my attempt to keep up with my Lexis feed while also letting you know what’s going on in the world of web accessibility litigation. Ugh…. More…

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Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 3)We Expect New Results from the Same Tools

A Cautionary Tale… Go to any McDonald’s restaurant in the world and there’s a good chance you won’t be able to order a milk shake, ice cream cone, or frozen dessert because the machine is broken. According to an article…

Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 2)Lack of Knowledge Transfer

A Continuing Problem… Last week, I talked about the elephant in the room of web accessibility consulting– the current model is broken. Jeff and I knew this when we started Converge Accessibility and we’re trying to do things differently. Sure,…

Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 1)Most Consultants Don’t Address Design

Our Current Web Accessibility Consulting Model is Broken Jeff and I have been helping companies with web accessibility for over 15 years now, even though our backgrounds in web and digital accessibility extend far beyond that. In most of those…

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…

Legal Update: April 2021

Maybe Starting a Regular Series? A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I would be starting a series that just provides regular updates on recent cases in web accessibility. This week seemed like a good time to kick off this…

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WebAlign: Proving a Proof of Concept

TL;DR Cliff Notes Version. If you want to use a great product like WebAlign to change your organization’s accessibility culture, your organization will likely ask you to perform a pilot project (aka “proof of concept”). This is an opportunity to…

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11th Circuit Reverses Winn-Dixie– What It Means to You

Yes, Winn-Dixie Was Reversed! Earlier today, my friend and former fellow Department of Justice Senior Trial Attorney Marc Dubin sent me a copy of today’s decision by the 11th Circuit in Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 10024 (11th…

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Retesting the Standing of Testers

New Updates in Lexis Last week, I made a quick video blog to talk about a relatively new case, Mejico v. Alba Web Designs, LLC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13354 (W.D. Va. 2021). In the process, I read through months…

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