Descriptive Link Text This is Part 5 of our “First Steps to An Accessible Website” blog series! In this post we are going to review how to describe the purpose of a link using its link text and its surrounding…
Couldn’t Make it to the Digital Accessibility Legal Summit? Watch Our Keynote!
Let’s face it… web accessibility is broken in our country. It’s broken legally. And it’s broken technologically. But there’s a bigger problem here– and that’s ableism and the lack of clear requirements. If you agree, watch my dry run for…
Legal Update: September 2021
It’s Friday afternoon, but you won’t see this post until Monday morning. I’m spending this weekend mildly frantic. Why? Well, because it’s conference season and I have a keynote presentation at DALS 2021 coming up. I recently took a count and…
Join Us at Our Upcoming Conferences
Time for More Presentations!!! Hey everyone! While we’re sad that summer is coming to an end, at least we have another season of conferences! Even with COVID, we can still get together virtually, share what we’re doing and what we’ve…
Web Accessibility – Who is Responsible?
Is it you or someone else? In our decades of working with various groups on digital accessibility, one thing has become very clear – most feel that addressing accessibility is someone else’s responsibility. When it comes to web specific content,…
Rethinking Standing in Web Accessibility
Venturing Into Uncomfortable Places Readers of this blog know that I spend a lot of time talking about “standing to sue.” For instance, I’ve talked about it in the context of Rizzi v. Hilton Domestic Operating Co. (E.D.N.Y. 2020) and…
Using CSS 3 Overflow Properties to Make Containers Meet WCAG 2.1
There are a host of WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria that prohibit text from getting truncated or overlaps other content, such as, when text is resized (1.4.4 Resize Text), when content is zoomed across browsers (1.4.10 Reflow) when text or line…
Legal Update: August 2021
I always get depressed towards the end of summer and all the signs of fall are popping up here in Seattle. We may as well talk about something FUN– like litigation! While this month has been a bit slow, litigation-wise,…
Choosing the Right Disabled Users for TestingA joint posting with our partners at Outlook Business Solutions
Every week, the team at Converge Accessibility meets for two hours with Greg Rogers from Outlook Business Solutions to develop test scripts that users with disabilities can leverage in testing websites for compliance with the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines…
Join Us at Digital Accessibility Legal Summit 2021
This year, I am honored to be the Keynote Speaker kicking off the Digital Accessibility Legal Summit 2021! It should be a great event. The Third Annual Digital Accessibility Summit The premier event for digital accessibility legal practitioners. Come join…