I just read a pretty amazing post from Glenda Watson Hyatt, who blogs about living with cerebral palsy. Glenda, borrowing an idea from blogger Liz Strauss, has challenged readers to explain in 25 words or less what accessibility means to them.
Here is my contribution:
Making content available to as many people as possible as often [...]
“Why Do We Have to Do Something Special for ‘Those People’?”
It’s a common objection to Web accessibility. The company decision makers understandably want to conserve cash and labor-hours. The idea of taking extra measures for the sake of a small subset of people seems like a nice-to-have “feature.”
I’ll save the argument that building accessibility into [...]
Inbound Marketing University (June 15–19) is a free retraining program for marketers who want a competitive edge in the workforce. (I would also recommend it for business owners, who should develop at least a glancing familiarity with 21st century marketing tools and strategy.) The IMU program includes ten webinar classes and one review session, and [...]
Some days (like today) I get terribly frustrated working in a field where anyone with a copy of Dreamweaver can call himself a professional Web designer. I’ve had too many clients whose sites needed to be rebuilt from the ground up thanks to shoddy work. Some of these clients hired not one but a series [...]
Accessibility testing is a big job. Our major accessibility standards, Section 508 of the 1998 Rehabilitation Act and the international protocol Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, include criteria that can be checked by machine, but much of the testing requires human judgment. For instance, a machine can check that every image has an ALT [...]
With Access U right around the corner, I feel inspired to revisit one of the most important, yet most often overlooked, considerations of Web site design—accessibility.
The federal government acknowledged through the 1998 amending of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 508) that access to information is a civil right. I would like for this to be the [...]
It’s that special time again. AIR-Interactive, sponsored by Knowbility, kicks off this Friday.
