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Americans With Severe, Permanent Disabilities Often Pay Back Student Loans They Don’t Owe

Student debt is a hot-button issue that affects many Americans, including those with disabilities. For example, if Jane Doe takes out a student loan and later in life develops a…

April 19, 2021Development

People with Disabilities Who Use Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Come Up Against Vaccination Barriers

Across the United States, Americans with disabilities are at a higher risk of contracting COVID than the rest of the population. Nursing homes are widely recognized as COVID danger zones,…

April 16, 2021Development

Transportation Remains an Obstacle for Vaccinating Michigan Residents with Disabilities

Vaccinating individuals who cannot leave their homes due to lack of transportation or severe health complications is a huge challenge that Michigan health authorities have yet to resolve. While free…

April 14, 2021Development

Despite Recent Study Indicating High Risk, Kentuckians with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Not Prioritized For COVID Vaccinations

After a year of COVID, vaccinations have begun to offer hope to the American public. Yet, in Kentucky, the vaccination of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is not…

April 12, 2021Development

Arizonans with Disabilities Face Obstacles to Getting COVID Vaccine

Not every response to the pandemic has been designed with accessibility in mind, creating more challenges for those with disabilities. Even as the vaccine rollout accelerates, Americans with disabilities still…

April 8, 2021Development

Americans With Severe, Permanent Disabilities Often Pay Back Student Loans They Don’t Owe

Student debt is a hot-button issue that affects many Americans, including those with disabilities. For example, if Jane Doe takes out a student loan and later in life develops a…

April 7, 2021Development

How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 2)

Ed note: this is part 2 of a series. You can find part 1 here Publishing systems like Squarespace, Wix, and WordPress are platforms that the general public can use…

October 8, 2020Development

Depressed Jobs Market Hits People with Disabilities Hard

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on every aspect of our lives, from education, to socializing, to our very ability to pay our bills. Grim as the unemployment numbers are for those…

August 14, 2020Development

How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 1)

I admit that I have been guilty of a lot of accessibility bad practices in the past, both as a freelancer and while working for agencies. Being a designer who…

July 16, 2020Development

Is Voice Recognition the Next Thing in Kiosk Technology?

Kiosks continue to integrate the latest in technology to improve the customer experience, reduce time on task, and extend the various tasks a kiosk can be used to complete. One…

July 9, 2020Development, Kiosk

Creating a Usable Kiosk Experience for Customers with Disabilities

Introduction While accessibility and usability are frequently used as interchangeable concepts, that is not strictly accurate. Accessibility focuses on an individual’s capacity to use a product regardless of ability. Usability…

May 20, 2020Development, Kiosk

Does WCAG Apply to Kiosks?

In summary: yes, WCAG applies to kiosks. Overview of Kiosk Accessibility Rules Kiosk accessibility is largely guided by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA sets forth hardware requirements…

May 15, 2020Development, Kiosk

Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse

Many organizations first encounter accessibility as a risk to be managed. They may hear of drive-by lawsuits, bad press, and inflated costs. They are the prime target for products that…

May 13, 2020Development

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…

May 12, 2020Accessibility Strategy, Development

Accessible digital map experiences: a mountain climb or a walk in the park?

The topic of accessible maps recently came up during a conversation with an organisation we’ve been helping. They were worried about the accessibility of digital maps, and they were considering…

April 2, 2020Development, User Experience (UX)

Headings & Accessibility

People who are new to accessibility may be unaware of the way that headings can help readers. They help “chunk” and label groups of related content. And people who use…

March 24, 2020Development

Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?

Headings convey the organization of the content on a webpage or screen. Good heading structures make it easy for people to quickly scan a web document and understand its structure,…

March 17, 2020Development

Teaching and learning digital accessibility with AIR

Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rally, or AIR, provides the perfect framework for learning what matters in digital accessibility. Accessibility is the practice of providing features that work for people with disabilities….

February 13, 2020Development

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Americans With Severe, Permanent Disabilities Often Pay Back Student Loans They Don’t Owe

People with Disabilities Who Use Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Come Up Against Vaccination Barriers

Transportation Remains an Obstacle for Vaccinating Michigan Residents with Disabilities

Despite Recent Study Indicating High Risk, Kentuckians with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Not Prioritized For COVID Vaccinations

Arizonans with Disabilities Face Obstacles to Getting COVID Vaccine

Americans With Severe, Permanent Disabilities Often Pay Back Student Loans They Don’t Owe

How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 2)

Depressed Jobs Market Hits People with Disabilities Hard

How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 1)

Is Voice Recognition the Next Thing in Kiosk Technology?

Creating a Usable Kiosk Experience for Customers with Disabilities

Does WCAG Apply to Kiosks?

Bolt-on Accessibility – 5 gears in reverse

Using the Accessibility Skills Hiring Toolkit to Build Capacity

Accessible digital map experiences: a mountain climb or a walk in the park?

Headings & Accessibility

Heading off confusion: When do headings fail WCAG?

Teaching and learning digital accessibility with AIR