Using the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to Build Capacity
2020 is the year the web got real, and digital accessibility capacity is needed now, more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are shifting our lives from…
The European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications requires EU member states to make sure their websites and mobile apps meet common accessibility standards. The…
April 26, 2018 | Accessibility Strategy, Development
Organizations that deliver online learning must be strategic and holistic in their accessibility approach, ensuring all necessary structures are in place to support accessible and equitable experiences for learners with disabilities. Responsibility for accessibility must be distributed appropriately across all stakeholder groups. By adopting stewardship activities common in physical campuses, a more strategic approach can be applied to the digital campus. Masterplanning the digital campus means addressing near-term activities with a long view—one that takes into account the underlying infrastructure as well as the surface-level structures where people engage more directly in the learning process. This paper presents foundational activities around policy, process, programs, and practice that are necessary to support the creation of a sustainable, accessible online learning environment.
April 14, 2016 | Accessibility Strategy, Development
OBJECTIVES OF WEB ACCESSIBILITY AUDIT The audit is based on a set of carefully selected pages that represent the type of content, technologies, and interactions found across the whole site….
September 8, 2015 | Accessibility Strategy
A TRUSTED SOURCE FOR SECTION 508 COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS TPGi is a consulting company specializing in accessibility for websites, web and mobile applications, and documents. We are internationally-recognized experts in accessibility…
September 8, 2015 | Accessibility Strategy
In April Interactive Accessibility’s CEO Kathy Wahlbin posted a blog with iOS and Android Screen Reader Gesture Reference Cheatsheets. The blog caught the attention of a French accessibility blog, Atalan Le Blog.
July 1, 2015 | Accessibility Strategy
A few weeks ago, several of us were in Florence, Italy attending the annual W4A conference when we received great news about the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-B): the US Department…
June 26, 2015 | Accessibility Strategy, Development
Improving web accessibility can be challenging, particularly for organizations with large, complex digital estates and internal organizational structures. Efforts can be guided by technical standards, but there are shortcomings with treating accessibility for people with disabilities as a compliance effort. Using the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design as an approach to remediation of accessibility barriers in the built environment as a parallel, we explore an approach to improving digital accessibility that places value on conscious, pragmatic decision-making and sharing of evidence of progress.
May 22, 2015 | Accessibility Strategy, Development