Creating usable website solutions
This Thursday, May 16, 2019 marks the eighth anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the annual worldwide community event to raise awareness about digital accessibility.
Conferences, webinars, and public events will be held around the world with the goal of people talking, sharing, and learning about accessibility, inclusion, and people with different disabilities. Continue reading Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019: Three Ways You Can Participate
I get asked these questions all the time at our Refresh Detroit and Metro Detroit WordPress meetup groups:
We know our organization needs to improve web accessibility.
Where do we start?
How do we get a strategy in place?
How do we make sure it’s successful?
Those aren’t uncommon questions for organizations. Continue reading Webinar: Evaluating Organizational Readiness for Accessibility
Thanks to Accessibility New York City (A11y NYC) livestreaming their April 2018 meetup last night, I was able to attend Tim Springer’s presentation 2019 Digital Accessibility Trends.
I didn’t know much about Springer’s background, he’s been doing accessibility work for 20 years. He started his accessibility journey when he was an undergraduate student at Stanford University.
Now CEO at Level Access, Springer developed Level Access’s core technology and led development of InFocus, the first commercial web accessibility testing software.
In recognition of his work, Springer was recently awarded a Champion of Change award by the White House. Continue reading Takeaways from 2019 Digital Accessibility Trends with Tim Springer, Founder of Level Access