Not making websites accessible means potentially losing millions and millions of dollars in the spending power of the huge number of working-age adults with disabilities. That is bad business. According to the CDC, nearly 61 million Americans are liv...
Time was that accessibility meant literal “access” to brick-and-mortar structures; and physical buildings. But times have changed. Providing online services, including digital access to banking and medical files is now the norm; a commonplace practic...
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 th...
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 d...
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, incl...
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 concerning website accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act....
