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Why We Created WCAG Testing Scripts That Don’t Use Assistive Technology

AT-Free Testing Scripts? In the accessibility world, our focus is on making sure that users with disabilities– including those who use assistive technologies (AT)– are able to access and interact with digital media as easily and robustly as users without…

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Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 3)We Expect New Results from the Same Tools

A Cautionary Tale… Go to any McDonald’s restaurant in the world and there’s a good chance you won’t be able to order a milk shake, ice cream cone, or frozen dessert because the machine is broken. According to an article…

Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 2)Lack of Knowledge Transfer

A Continuing Problem… Last week, I talked about the elephant in the room of web accessibility consulting– the current model is broken. Jeff and I knew this when we started Converge Accessibility and we’re trying to do things differently. Sure,…

Web Accessibility is Broken (Part 1)Most Consultants Don’t Address Design

Our Current Web Accessibility Consulting Model is Broken Jeff and I have been helping companies with web accessibility for over 15 years now, even though our backgrounds in web and digital accessibility extend far beyond that. In most of those…

Viewpoint: Don’t Miss the Accessibility Forest for The Trees

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…

Reserve Your Spot! Join a Free Webinar. Learn practical first steps to achieving web accessibility and reducing liability risk. Thursday, January 14, 2pm Eastern. Converge Accessibility. Narrowing the digital divide.

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…

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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…

Are Your Vendors Living Up to Their Accessibility Promises?

A Dirty Not-So-Little Secret Consulting is a rough business. It’s hard to get rich. The work is constant and involves a lot of late nights. And the only guarantee that you’ll have a roof over your head tomorrow is winning…

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Making Web Accessibility Easy

One Heck of a Webinar! As not that many people give webinars on the intersection of law and technology in web accessibility, my webinars have always been pretty popular. Typically, when I was at AppGate, I would get about 150…

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Join Our Upcoming Webinar

Reserve Your Spot Now!! Join Us and 3PlayMedia For Our Joint Webinar(October 15 2PM Eastern) Our friends at 3PlayMedia, an industry leader in captioning services, are hosting a joint webinar in which I will be presenting on a lightweight but…

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