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,…
Accessibility Testing and iFrames
Keeping an Eye on the iFrame A few weeks ago, my colleague Ken Nakata, was talking with a colleague at a digital publishing house about the new accessibility test scripts that we developed in WebAlign. These are designed to enable…
Why UX (and Not Developers) Should Drive Accessibility
What’s the Problem in a Nutshell? The reason why most organizations fail at accessibility is because they don’t focus on UX. That may not seem startling until you realize exactly what I’m saying. You’ll find plenty of people who will tell…
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…
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…
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…
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…