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This Week in Accessibility: The latest in the multi-year Harvard/MIT closed captioning saga

In case you forgot what was going on (it’s been a while) here is the procedural history so far: 2015 — NAD files lawsuit for Harvard’s failure to provide close captioning 2016 — Court denied Harvard’s motion to stay / dismiss based on jurisdiction 2016 — NAD…

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Ten Behaviors that Require no Talent

Being on Time / Being Prepared Timing and preparation are a huge components in being successful at accessibility. If you start your accessibility work at the design stage, you are only slightly late. All of your project independent accessibility preparation such…

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Running Accessible Meetings and Events

A primer to make the lives of participants with disabilities better. As someone in technology with a long-standing mobility problem, I have been to a LOT of meetings. Looking just from the perspective of access, most of them have been…

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Digital Accessibility Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Creating a metrics oriented hierarchy for tracking accessibility progress If you don’t know what an OKR is or why it is important to have them, please read this article first. If you are only going to skim it or don’t have time,…

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Businesses — Why using Wix and GoDaddy Increases your Lawsuit Risk

Wait, I can get sued for using Wix and GoDaddy?? What the Actual Heck?!?! Why yes. Yes, you can. In a heart beat. Here is a little background on how this story came into being. I’ve recently spent an absolutely mind…

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Accessible Social Media

Including, not excluding, people with disabilities from social media platforms is not hard. But it does require attention to detail Social media is a very popular tool among people with disabilities to stay connected despite the fact that most social…

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Accessibility Checklists — Just say No

I am a Accessibility Manager with 15 years of experience. No more general A11Y Checklists, PLEASE !!! There are so many articles touting themselves as general “accessibility checklists” that I’ve literally lost track. Even respected organizations like W3Cand WebAIM have published them. WCAG 2.1…

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This Week in Accessibility: What we can learn from the “WebAIM Million”

Summary of an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages This week being the syzygy of accessibility conferences, WebAIM took the opportunity to publish its accessibility analysis of the top one million web pages consisting of home pages from 730 unique top-level domains, .com (521,316), .org…

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This Week in Accessibility: Bartleson v. Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Disabled Employees suing Employers over Inaccessible Technology is the next logical evolutionary step in ADA / accessibility lawsuits Most people who work in accessibility by now are tired about hearing about the year over year (for the past 4 years)…

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User Research with People with Disabilities

I was really excited this week to be presenting at the #PacRim2019 conference on UX research involving people with disabilities, one of my favorite things to talk about. I will be giving the same talk with with my co-presenter David…

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