A VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, is a document that allows your company or organization to...
August 21, 2017
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What is the AODA?
Enacted in 2005 in Ontario, Canada, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) was created to...
August 18, 2017
How the Air Carrier Access Act Relates to Website Accessibility
What is the ACAA? The Air Carrier Access Act, or ACAA, provides rules and regulations to ensure that people with...
August 16, 2017
Recent Internet Accessibility Cases Suggest Stricter Enforcement
People with disabilities are often prevented from using the internet in its full capacity because of the lack of...
August 11, 2017
Accessibility from the Ground Up: What to Consider When Developing a New Website
The Internet is fundamentally intended for use by people of all physical and mental abilities, all around the...
August 7, 2017
Accessibility Considerations for Localization
Although English is the lingua franca of modern global society, not everyone understands it or feels comfortable...
August 5, 2017
Website Accessibility Lawsuits Expected to Rise from Trump Administration
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. This...
August 3, 2017
Giving Your Hotel an Edge Online by Catering to the Disabled
There are roughly 53 million adults living with a disability in the United States. That's about one-fifth of the...
August 1, 2017
How ARIA Can Help Make Your Website Accessible
ARIA, or WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative — Accessible Rich Internet Applications), is a specification...
July 31, 2017
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What Are the Four Major Categories of Accessibility?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are organized by four main principles, which state that content...
September 13, 2019
Best Fonts To Use for Website Accessibility
Font style is one of the most important considerations of accessible website design. Although screen readers can...
May 20, 2017
What is a11y?
You may have seen the term "a11y" floating around the Internet as a hashtag or popping up in tech discussions....
May 4, 2017
Is There a Legal Requirement to Implement WCAG?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are often referred to as the gold standard in accessibility and...
August 22, 2019
What Is an Example of Accessibility?
Sometimes, we're asked, "What is an example of accessibility?" An example of accessibility would be any content or...
November 24, 2020
5 Quick Ways to Self-check the Accessibility of a Website
Ensuring your website is accessible is imperative for business, legal, and practical reasons, but it can be hard...
April 3, 2019
Checklist for Creating Accessible Videos
Videos are everywhere and are being regularly-consumed by more people everyday. According to Statista, there are...
April 2, 2019
Why Is It Important for Accessibility to Use Actual Text Instead of Images of Text?
On the web, we use images everywhere! Images (such as maps, graphs, info graphics) can be an effective way to...
December 24, 2018
What is a VPAT and how is it used?
A VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, is a document that allows your company or organization to...
August 21, 2017
Make Your Hashtags Accessible
Hashtags may be one of the best ways to reach new audiences on social media, letting people who don't yet know...
February 5, 2019
What is color contrast?
Colors are an essential feature of web design and how they're used is a core consideration of a website's or app's...
April 20, 2019
8 Common Image Alt Text Mistakes to Stop Making
When alternative text, or using text to describe images and other non-text content, is done well, it improves both...
March 17, 2020
