Step Back and Get a Perspective You may have heard the saying, “Can’t see the forest for the trees”. That saying is applied to situations where a person is focused on the small details to such a degree that they…
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Viewpoint: Compliance and Awareness in Accessibility
Why is This Issue Coming Up? Two weeks ago, this issue surfaced on my LinkedIn profile. And then, earlier this week, a colleague dragged me into a thread on LinkedIn to discuss the same topic. Like most of us, I’ve…
Practical Steps Toward Web Accessibility and Reducing Liability Risk
Where to Begin? Have you been tasked with bringing your organization’s web presence into compliance with the web content accessibility guidelines? Not sure where or how to start? You should have attended our webinar with 3PlayMedia on January 14, 2021!…
Looking to 2021: What Will Happen in Web Accessibility Litigation
Why Another 2021 Prediction? Wow, it has been one insanely busy week. I’ve been neck deep with two coding projects– one was all CSS and JavaScript and the second one was all PHP. While I don’t code often, it’s an…
Accessibility Overlays – Ignorance is Not Bliss
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…
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…