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…
Counting Web Accessibility Cases
Looking Back at 2020 With the end of 2020 and an Administration change coming up in a few weeks, I really struggled to come up with a blog post for this week. These are the most uncertain times I’ve ever…
Legal Update: December 2021
Happy New Year! Because of my crazy schedule, I’m pulling together this post on the last day of 2021 but it won’t go live until after the New Year. It’s been a real pleasure pulling together my monthly legal update…
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…
Why An Accessibility Audit Often Isn’t Enough to Make a Website Accessible
“Easy” Fixes Aren’t Always Easy Earlier this week, we had an interesting call with a customer. They said that they were making their way through an accessibility audit report that we had created earlier– and progress at fixing the issues…
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…
Viewpoint: Web Accessibility Compliance or InnovationDon’t Fall Over Backwards While Reaching for the Stars
Start of a New Series For the third time in just this week, I got into this conversation with another accessibility colleague through LinkedIn. Let me know if this sounds familiar? ME: As most of clients are not at a…
Microlearning and WebAlign
Sign Up Now for WebAlign What is Microlearning? Unless you’re completely removed from training, you’ve probably heard business people talk about “microlearning.” The idea behind micro-learning is to simply deliver tiny training modules as a kind of on-the-job training. This…
Testing the Limits of Standing
It may seem odd to publish a blog post late Friday afternoon. However, just yesterday, I presented at the Accessing Higher Ground Conference and provided a legal update on web accessibility litigation. This is a presentation I give on a…