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How Web Accessibility Improves User Experience for Financial Services Companies

As the web has grown increasingly important for conducting business in recent years, the number of lawsuits filed...
Mar 6, 2018

How Credit Unions Respond to ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits

The recent uptick in discrimination lawsuits based on the Americans with Disabilities Act is affecting...
Mar 1, 2018

THE IMPACT OF WEB ACCESSIBILITY ON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month®, which makes it the perfect time to talk about how...
Feb 28, 2018

Are Top School District Websites Inaccessible?

In the past few decades, especially since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, school...
Feb 19, 2018

Why Web Accessibility is So Important During Tax Season

Doing your taxes is hard enough without the online challenges that people with disabilities face every day....
Feb 13, 2018

Industry Highlight: Bank of America’s Comprehensive Accessibility Policy

An accessibility policy is a policy that outlines how and why you plan to make your website accessible for those...
Feb 8, 2018

How the NFL is Committed to Web Accessibility

With Super Bowl LII coming up this Sunday, February 4, now is the perfect time to look at one of the National...
Feb 2, 2018

How Poor Web Accessibility Affects Banking Customers

Being able to access banking and other financial services online is almost a necessity for the general U.S....
Jan 31, 2018

How Does a Government Shutdown Affect Web Accessibility?

The January 2018 U.S. federal government shutdown lasted less than three days, but its impacts were felt by...
Jan 29, 2018

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Why Justified (or Centered) Text is Bad for Accessibility

Justified text is text that is spaced so that the right and left sides of the paragraph have the same edge. In...
May 9, 2023

All-Caps Headings: Are They Bad for Accessibility?

Web designers have a responsibility to think about users with disabilities when building content. That extends to...
May 1, 2024

Does Comic Sans Benefit People with Dyslexia?

Comic Sans is controversial. Since its release in 1994, the playful, Batman-inspired font has been panned as...
May 16, 2023

Accessibility Tips: Let Users Control Font Size

Oct 26, 2023

Accessibility Tips: Using the DIV and SPAN Elements

Usually, you want use HTML to convey meaning about the structure of your website. However, two HTML elements are...
Oct 21, 2022

Dark Mode Can Improve Text Readability — But Not for Everyone

Dark modes and themes are extremely popular and they’re frequently touted as an accessibility solution. While the...
Jul 7, 2021

How to Fix: "Buttons Do Not Have Accessible Names"

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) require interactive elements to have both a “label" and a “name.”...
May 26, 2022

The Robles v. Domino’s Settlement (And Why It Matters)

One of the most important web accessibility lawsuits has finally reached its conclusion.
Jul 12, 2022

Are QR Codes Accessible for People with Disabilities?

QR (Quick Response) codes are a common tool for driving customer engagement. By scanning a square, black-and-white...
May 17, 2023

Emojis and Web Accessibility: Best Practices

When you’re posting on social media or creating casual content for your business’s website, you might wonder: Are...
Feb 24, 2025

Web Accessibility Tips: Don't Disable Zooming (Yes, Even On Mobile)

If your users can’t zoom in on your content, you’re probably making a mistake. Zooming (or scaling) is common,...
Oct 14, 2022

What Are the Four Major Categories of Accessibility?

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are organized by four main principles, which state that content...
Sep 13, 2019

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