When I was at the Justice Department, August was a notoriously slow month. At first, I blamed the summer heat but there’s more to it than just that. Lawyers aren’t terribly different from other people. With September around the corner,…
Communication Around Digital Accessibility Must Improve: How Users and Businesses Alike Are Failing to Advance Digital Accessibility
Overview When it comes to enhancing usability and accessibility on your website, do you ask your audience? Do they know how to get a hold of you when they run into a challenge or barrier? Do they believe you care…
Does Accessibility Stifle the Creative Process?
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…
California Court of Appeals Rules that Unruh Doesn’t Cover Websites of Purely Online Companies
At the beginning of this month, a California state court of appeals in the Second Appellate Division ruled in Martinez v. Cot’n Wash, Inc., 2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 673 (Cal. Ct. App. 2022) that, absent proving intentional discrimination, the Unruh…
Read Our IAAP Blog Post on Overlays
I’ll keep this short. A few months back, the folks at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) asked me to put together a blog post on the work that I’ve been doing for them on the dreaded “Overlays Project.” I…
Legal Update: July 2022
Wow, July has been an exceptionally slow month in my Lexis web accessibility feed. For the whole first half of the month, not a single case popped up in my feed! Almost two years ago, I blogged about a slowing…
DOJ Announces New Title II ADA Web Accessibility Regulation
I’ll make this quick. A few minutes ago, my wife (Laura Ruby) gave me a heads up that my old office at the U.S. Department of Justice announced a new regulation for web accessibility under Title II of the Americans…
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…
A Better Approach to the Nexus Test
I have been thinking about writing this blog post for some time. It reflects my changing opinion over the course of over twenty years working in web accessibility. During that time, I’ve come to believe that the so-called “nexus” test…
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…