The Supreme Court of the United States has denied a petition from pizza giant Domino’s to hear whether its website is required to be accessible to the disabled, leaving in place a lower court decision against the company. The decision not to grant the case is a loss for the …
Should companies be sued if disabled people can’t access their apps and websites? What about if they can access only certain parts? Depending on which side you’re on, the issue is a matter of civil rights or it’s just a pretext for lawyers to shake down innocent businesses. It now …
We’re Still Waiting for the Supreme Court to Rule on the ADA Read More
To explain the WCAG and how these guidelines are developed and implemented, this information was taken from the great resource w3.org. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international Web standards: HTML, CSS, and many more. W3C’s Web standards are called W3C Recommendations. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are developed …
MediaWire is WCAG 2.1 AA Compliant! What Does This Mean? Read More
What is “accessibility” as it pertains to websites? It is generally understood that when we say a website is accessible, we mean that the site’s content is available, and its functionality can be operated by everyone. As a person without a disability it’s easy to assume that all users can …
Players in all areas of publishing including trade publishing, independent publishing, and non-traditional publishing such as publishing internally within corporations, or university presses, all understand that there is a need for published content to be as accessible as possible, to as many people as possible. Because in the United States …
How the DAISY Standard and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Work Together Read More
Unbelievably, approximately twenty percent of disabled adults in the United Kingdom have not used the Web, and in the United States, disabled Americans are about three times as likely as those without a disability to say they never go online (23% vs. 8%), according to a Pew Research Center survey …
One In Five People Still Don’t Use Digital Technology! Read More
What is DAISY? According to their website, DAISY is an acronym for Digital Accessible Information SYstem and the original concept for DAISY was born from the need for accessible audio that could be used by individuals unable to read print, as easily and efficiently as a sighted person uses a …
In the United States alone it’s estimated that the annual discretionary spending of people with disabilities is over $490 billion. With that type of money in play, should we even be asking the question “Should websites be accessible to everyone, including the blind?” Surprisingly, this is still a topic for …
A group of United States senators recently wrote to the Attorney General to get an update on the Justice Department’s efforts to clarify compliance obligations for businesses with respect to website accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This has been a long time coming and this is not the …
This article in the Washington Post about lawsuits being brought because of the lack of laws pertaining to new technology and the 1990’s era ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) is interesting. It emphasizes once again that this problem is not going away anytime soon and it is becoming very expensive …
Lawsuits Fill the Void in Accessibility Legislation Read More
