Category: WebAlign

Keyboard Testing Welcome to Part 7 of our “First Steps to An Accessible Website” blog series! This post is focused on an often-overlooked critical part of an accessible website – keyboard support! Keyboard accessibility is something automated accessibility scanning tools…

Something Old, Something New A Google search for “do accessibility overlays work” will provide you with several websites that mostly put accessibility overlays/plug-ins in a negative space. This isn’t new information and probably doesn’t come as a surprise. There are…

Get Noticed This is part 2 of the series on How to Document Accessibility Issues. As mentioned in part 1, documenting accessibility issues is a critical, but often overlooked skill. While documenting issues is not ‘fun’ and can also be…

Manual Accessibility Testing Complexity Manual accessibility audits tend to be complex undertakings because the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for many to understand and to know how to fully test. A comprehensive manual audit usually requires…

Programmatically Labeled Forms Welcome to Part 6 in our First Steps to an Accessible Website series! We are getting close to wrapping up this blog series and with this post we are turning our attention to form labels. When it…

Digital Accessibility Awareness Is on the Rise The subject of digital content accessibility has grown in popularity. Many organizations and businesses who never thought about accessibility are now aware that they should be focusing on and creating accessible content, even…

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…

Is it you or somone 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,…