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Addressing accessibility requirements in design briefs

Don’t produce a design document that includes a design implementation recipe without including accessibility details. Adesign brief is a description of a project and corresponding drawings (comps and wireframes, for example) created by a person or team in consultation with…
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Out-of-state ADA lawsuit revived by Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Yeah, it’s a bathroom case. But digital accessibility stakeholders should pay close attention to this one There were two notable defendant wins in digital accessibility lawsuits in 2019. Mendez v. Apple and Diaz v. Kroger were tossed in no small part because the plaintiffs…
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Overlays are not the solution to your accessibility problem

In the long run they will hurt, not help your approach to people with disabilities Accessibility overlays are tools that detect and dynamically repair HTML accessibility issues in non-mobile environments. And what accessibility manager in their right mind WOULDN’T want…
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What’s more expensive than getting sued over inaccessibility?

Getting sued *twice* over the same (or different) inaccessibility One of the most interesting new findings in the annual Usablenet accessibility lawsuit report is that 21 % of accessibility lawsuits in 2019 were against companies who have been previously sued. This number…
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