Governments in many countries are addressing accessibility in the digital realm very seriously now. For example, in December 2020 the UK government updated its content design guidance for open formats. The update has underlined its commitment to open standards and clearly mandated GOV.UK publishers to provide accessible alternatives to PDFs. …

Death of the PDF? Not quite, but accessible alternatives are quickly becoming necessary Read More

Online learning is having a big moment. Although “accessibility” in education has been a growing issue for the last number of years, education is being revamped quickly now, as well as most other industries and institutions, due to the novel coronavirus. Many colleges and universities in the United States have …

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WebAIM is a non-profit organization based at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Their website tells us: “In February 2019, WebAIM conducted an accessibility evaluation of the home pages for the top 1,000,000 web sites using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology parameters). While this …

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A fixed-layout publication is one where each page has a fixed size (height and width) and the content is precisely laid out at specific locations. Fixed layouts are commonly created using images, but can also be achieved in HTML. They are typically used to create comics, manga, children’s story books, …

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Accessibility as defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary is the ability of being reached, approached, used, or understood. The power of technology allows businesses to make information and resources more easily available to those who need it. There is no really good reason for any digital information to be inaccessible …

Digital Accessibility is Essential for Some and Useful For All Read More