in 2001, when I first started working in accessibility at the BBC, one of the key things we thought about was the aim to make text as simple as possible.…
Landmark navigation is really useful for screen reader users. They can jump around pages from landmark to landmark, and heading to heading. However, lack of native browser support for landmark…
Accessibility testing is a specialist skill. However, just because there are tests that require detailed knowledge, tools or expensive ATs, it doesn’t mean that it can only be done by…
Last week a brief filed by the Internet Association, which represents Google, Amazon, Facebook, AOL and eBay, stated “Applying the ADA to all Web sites may place uncertain, conflicting, burdensome,…
2012 was a year of real ups and downs for the de-facto Standard for accessibility, WCAG 2.0. It’s finally become ratified as an international Standard. It’s been included in legislation…
Early this month the European Commission issued a proposal for a directive on “Accessibility of Public Sector Bodies’ Websites”. This will require twelve categories of EU public-sector websites to comply…
From the typewriter to 'Zombies, Run!', some of the greatest mainstream products were originally created in response to the needs of a disabled person. And many companies are finding that…
The captions lawsuit between NAD and Netflix has now been settled, with an agreement for Netflix to achieve 100% captioned programmes within 2 years and to pay costs of $755,000…
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