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Approximately 466 million people (over 5% of the world's population) worldwide have disabling hearing loss. This includes about 432 million adults and 34 million children. Disabling hearing loss is different for adults and children. An adult is ...
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In this presentation, Nick Corbett, Accessibility Training & Research Coordinator at The Carroll Center for the Blind, talked about the Screen Reader User Tester Training (SRUTT) Program at the Carroll Center for the Blind. Nick discussed how ...
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Earlier this year, Equalize Digital's CEO, Amber Hinds, spoke at Knowbility's John Slatin AccessU conference on how organizations can maintain accessibility on a website with many contributors. AccessU is three-day web accessibility conference that ...
In this presentation, Danielle Zarcaro, Owner of Paperback Web Development, went over some general concepts, some code examples, and the new features and challenges in front of us when it comes to making accessible WordPress websites in the Full Site ...
In this presentation, Dax Castro, Adobe-certified PDF Accessibility Trainer, reviewed the requirements for accessible documents and how they fit into the WordPress architecture. Dax discussed basic testing, dealing with non-text content inside PDFs, ...
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In this presentation, Meg "Memi" Miller, lead designer, developer and accessibility specialist for Bet Hannon Business Websites, spoke about alt text. How do you write beneficial alt text, and how do you know when it's best not to? Meg discussed how ...
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In this presentation, Dacey Nolan, software engineer at Trainual and Alex Zlaktus, Designer at Trainual, talked about Epilepsy barriers with the web and accessible design systems. First, Dacey discusses how epilepsy "seizure disorders" have barriers ...
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In this presentation, Joe Dolson, WordPress core committer, WordPress plugin developer, and web accessibility consultant, spoke about how you can contribute to the WordPress Accessibility community as a developer, designer, or tester. Thanks to ...
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In this presentation, Karl Groves, Founder and President at Tenon, spoke about one of the bigger challenges when it comes to managing accessibility. How do you create a score in a way that accurately reflects how usable a product is for users with ...
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In this presentation, we celebrated the Global Accessibility Awareness Day by having a panel discussion with Mark McGuire, Alicia Jarvis, and Devin Gutierrez, where they talked about their experiences using the web while giving feedback and insights ...
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In this presentation, Daniel Schutzsmith, Website and Digital Project Manager at Pinellas County, shared tips, and tools, and discussed the process of a large government website deployment with thousands of pieces of content across almost 100 ...
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In this presentation, Matisse Hamel-Nelis, VP of Communications for AbleDocs, walked us through the ins and outs of how to make our social media content accessible on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Thanks to Our Sponsors Empire ...
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Media Contact Amber Hinds, CEO(512) 942-5858 x 3hello@equalizedigital.com What is Website Accessibility, and Why Is It So Important?, Featuring Amber Hinds on The Entrepreneur MBA Podcast Georgetown, Texas, May 5, 2022 – Amber Hinds, CEO of ...
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In this presentation, Cam Beaudoin, President at A11y Coder, talked about how to create web forms that are more accessible and usable, as well as how to follow development best practices and ensure functionality for as many audiences as ...
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Media Contact Amber Hinds, CEO(512) 942-5858 x 3hello@equalizedigital.com Steve Jones Becomes CTO and Shareholder of Equalize Digital Georgetown, Texas, April 25, 2022 – Equalize Digital is pleased to announce that Steven Jones, former lead ...
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In this presentation, Nicolas Steenhout, blogger, podcaster, and public speaker, featured important aspects of accessibility that aren't as well known as others. He used findings from usability testing as well as quotes from disabled user experience ...
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At Equalize Digital, we are committed to sharing knowledge with others and giving back to our community. As part of that commitment, we recently partnered with the WordPress Foundation’s community team to run an official WordPress Meetup centered ...
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It is estimated that around 0.2% of the world's population is completely deaf-blind, and another 2% live with "milder forms" of deaf-blindness. This is screen reader text. Generally, someone who is deaf-blind has concomitant hearing and vision ...
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Amber Hinds, Founder & CEO of Equalize Digital, goes over how we use the Accessibility Checker plugin to audit, troubleshoot, and fix accessibility issues that can be found on websites. Read the Transcript Hi, this is Amber Hinds. I'm the ...
In this presentation, Lainey Feingold, a disability rights lawyer and author who has been practicing in this space for more than 25 years, talked about the fundamentals of why accessibility is a civil right of disabled people and shared up-to-date ...
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