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How to Make Your Website Accessible for Blind and Visually-Impaired People
Whether you're a designer, developer, or content creator, you need to know how to make your website accessible to blind and visually impaired people. Learning how to create blind-friendly websites starts with understanding how blind people use the ...
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Website Accessibility Requirements Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) was created by the Ontarian government in 2005. This act was created to establish and enforce a set of standards for accessibility in the public sector. While the ultimate goal of the ...
Accessibility Requirements for Healthcare Websites
Year after year, the number of website accessibility lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) continues to rise. The healthcare industry is especially susceptible to accessibility lawsuits as doctors' offices, dental practices, and ...
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Study Finds Businesses Are Increasing Focus on Disability Inclusion
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 19.3% of people with a disability were employed in 2019. While this may not seem like much when compared to the 66.3% of people without a disability who were employed in 2019, it is a marked ...
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Announcing Accessibility Checker & Priority Support Plans
At Equalize Digital, we envision a world where, one day, all people will have equal access to information and tools on the internet, regardless of ability. We know that hiring an accessibility company to thoroughly audit and remediate website ...
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Cochlear Ltd. Receives FDA Approval for Hearing Devices That Connect to Smartphones
Cochlear Limited has been producing implantable hearing devices for almost 30 years. These hearing devices have helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their hearing and live a more accessible life. Last July, Cochlear Ltd. announced the ...
Voting and Accessibility
For many people, voting in elections is straightforward and accessible. But for the 1 in 4 U.S. adults who have disabilities, voting can be a major source of frustration. Even with some recent voting accessibility successes, many voting processes are ...
What Are Screen Readers?
For individuals with disabilities, using websites, online software, and apps can be difficult. However, the development of assistive technology (AT) has played a large part in helping those individuals navigate through the web and understand the ...
WCAG Conformance Levels Comparison: Which One You Should Follow
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have are various levels of conformance that your website and content can follow for accessibility. The WCAG conformance levels range from A (lowest), AA, to AAA (highest). It can be difficult to know ...
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ADA Compliance and Your Website
As we discussed in our post on WCAG 2.1, when you create any type of web content, whether it's a website or web application, you need to ensure that the content you're creating is accessible and useable by all people. When considering how you can ...
Accessibility Glossary
When you're just getting started learning website accessibility best practices, creating accessible web content can sometimes feel overwhelming. There are a large number of terms to remember if you want to understand website accessibility. We've ...
Accessibility & ADA Compliance Testing for Websites
Creating an accessible website is key in today's technological landscape. But how can you make sure that you're creating accessible web content that's ADA compliant? Well, one of the simplest ways is to perform accessibility testing and ADA ...
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508 Compliance Testing: What You Need to Know
In 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. This law strengthened section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which was (and still is) of great importance to website accessibility. If you work for a ...
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Web Accessibility: POUR Acronym Explained
When learning about accessible web best practices, you may have come across the POUR acronym which comes from four principles that are used to create the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). About WCAG and the Principles of Web ...
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WordPress Accessibility and the Gutenberg Editor
When WordPress 5.0 was released in December of 2018, it came with a new feature: the Gutenberg editor. This new editor boasted a ton of exciting elements that were meant to increase the flexibility and improve the experience of editing content in ...
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Domino’s Case In Website Accessibility Lawsuit
For many visually impaired web users, screen readers are an important tool to access web content. So, when Guillermo Robles, who is blind, was unable to use his screen reading software to order a pizza from Domino's, he decided to take action. And, ...
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Happy Birthday, WCAG! W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are 20 Years Old This Week
20 years ago, on May 5, 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), announced the first edition of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The guidelines have been updated over the years, but we wanted to look back at the way that they ...
Settlement in Voting Rights Case Requires County Voting Website Accessibility
When participating in an election, whether local or federal, you may not think twice about your ability to cast your vote privately. But for 5 visually impaired voters in Alameda County, their right to privacy was taken away thanks to broken voting ...
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U.S. Department of Justice Affirms That the ADA Applies to Websites
After a recent surge of website accessibility lawsuits, 103 members of Congress, led by Ted Budd (R-NC), sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The letter implored the DOJ to provide clarity and guidance with regard to website ...
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