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.…
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).…
Legal Update: February 2023
At Converge Accessibility, our blog posts normally go out at 9:00am Pacific every Monday morning. This week, however, I held back until Wednesday so I could be sure to capture all of the cases that came in during the whole…
Ask AI – Accessibility Overlays
Robot Overlords With the recent resurgence in popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) many worry if robots are going to take over the world. It is likely already too late to worry about that. While we wait for our Robot Overlords…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 4)Pulling it All Together
This is the last installment of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…
Legal Update: January 2023
This month, we have no cases to report on. Really. As far as I know, in the two and a half years that I have been writing these monthly legal updates, this is the first time that we have no…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 3)Treat Web and Digital Accessibility as a Part of Program Access
This is Part Three of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 2)Use a Better Survey Tool
This is Part Two of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.…
Creating a Better ADA Self-Evaluation (Part 1)Get People with Disabilities Involved Early in the Process
This is Part One of our Four-Part Blog Series describing how state and local governments (as well as Federal grantees) can conduct better self-evaluations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.…
Hidden Accessibility Gems
Accessibility Settings Today’s desktop computers and mobile devices have built-in accessibility settings to allow users to adjust their experience according to their needs. These settings vary between operating systems (OS). When an update to the OS is applied, it can…