Overview This year I had the opportunity to present at the Educause Annual Conference 2022 on behalf of AbleDocs. The topic of discussion was a simpler approach to document and web accessibility. This is because organizations tend to struggle with…
Accessing the Digital World with a Visual Disability
Blindness is a Spectrum Blindness is a spectrum and can affect people in a variety of ways. A visual disability cannot be corrected with contacts, glasses, or surgery. For me, my visual disability is caused by genetics, which cannot be…
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…
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…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 7)
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…
A Different View into Accessibility Overlays
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…
How to Document Accessibility Issues – Part 2
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…
How to Document Accessibility Issues – Part 1
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…
First Steps to an Accessible Website (Part 6)
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…