For many years now PDF files have been a convenient way to deliver print documents online. When the technology debuted it was almost the greatest thing since sliced bread, but they remain a challenge to make accessible. A very informative article by Nielsen Norman Group about PDFs and Accessibility can …
Drawbacks That Make PDFs Not the Best Choice for Accessibility 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 …
Not making websites accessible means potentially losing millions and millions of dollars in spending power of the huge number of working-age adults with disabilities. That is bad business. According to the CDC, there are nearly 61 million Americans living with some sort of disability, and the majority of these individuals …
A good place to start is with an ADA checklist for accessibility. Compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act can be a daunting task. It is a big topic, but the ADA website is a good place to start. You should create or acquire a checklist for ADA compliance and …
Some General Guidelines for Making Digital Spaces Accessible Read More
Time was that accessibility meant literal “access” to brick-and-mortar structures; physical buildings. But times have changed. Providing online services, including digital access to banking and medical files is now the norm; a commonplace practice that bridges the gap between businesses and consumers and pretty much everyone agrees that it should …
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 …
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, …
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
A recent court ruling against Domino’s Pizza highlights a disparity in website and app accessibility. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Domino’s Pizza appeal, making way for a lawsuit against the pizza chain that its website was not accessible to the visually-impaired. Because there are no laws in …
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 …
