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Accessibility Testing – Pay Attention to the Details!

Patience, Aptitude, & Experience Testing website accessibility is a special skill. While almost anyone can learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and review a website for conformance with the Success Criteria, not everyone has the patience or aptitude…

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Legal Update: May 2023

Up here in Seattle, May is usually a cool, rainy month. Frequently, this extends into most of June, leading local denizens to refer to the month as “Juneuary.” So far, this year has broken that pattern as we’ve had brilliant…

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Section 508 and New “Dear Colleagues” Letter

In the last week, I’ve come across a few legal developments that, while they sound amazing, just seem to put us back in a place where common sense could have left us unperturbed. Section 508 and Orozco v. Garland First…

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When Mootness Works and Fails in Web Accessibility Cases

At Converge, we work with a lot of attorneys who are representing companies that get sued for web accessibility. Most of them have the good sense to just settle their cases immediately—and then start making their sites accessible. This is…

Legal Update: April 2023

In terms of interesting cases, April offered a respite after a busy March. Thank goodness because other work at Converge has been going crazy! Purely Online Companies are Vulnerable to Lawsuits (Especially in New York) Okay, the headline here is…

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Can Using an Overlay Win a Lawsuit?

Say What?! Earlier this week, Ken and I had an interesting call. One of our clients read Ken’s Legal Update for March and asked if just buying a subscription to AccessiBe could moot an active lawsuit! Now, I’ve got your…

Legal Update: March 2023

March started out slowly with hardly any cases, but then by the middle of the month, some interesting cases started showing up in my Lexis feed. All in all, I’d say it was one of the more interesting months in…

2023 International Accessibility ConferencesDid You Miss It?

Overview Every year the accessibility conferences kick off around March. The 2023 year is no different. The PacRim conference was held March 6 and 7 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The CSUN conference was held March 13 thru 17 in Anaheim, California.…

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Ask AI – Accessibility Scanners vs Manual Testing

Poking at the Robot Overlords Last we spoke with ChatGPT, one of the more popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) engines today, we got ChatGPT’s opinion on how effective accessibility overlays are compared to coding to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).…

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Is Colorado the Next Web Litigation Frontier?

I spent almost all of my time this week helping potential clients in Colorado address web accessibility. Why is that? While most of us tend to think of New York, California, and Florida as the hotbeds of web accessibility litigation, I…

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