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...
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 websites using the WAVE stand-alone API...
Accessibility as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the ability to be 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...
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...
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 stand...
