Is AI Deskilling Accessibility Work?
Ken Nakata and Thomas Logan talk about AI deskilling: what happens to accessibility skills when AI does the first pass, why accessibility experts need to agree on what counts as a...
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Building accessible digital experiences through user journey testing
PAC NYC built accessibility into its digital ecosystem from the very beginning, creating a smoother and more usable experience for all visitors. Through user journey testing, Equal...
Accessibility remediation: Turning barriers into inclusive user experiences
Accessibility remediation is the technical work that removes barriers in your product’s code. Equal Entry reviews your issue list, prioritizes fixes by user journey, and works...
What Is a Digital Accessibility Audit?
A digital accessibility audit shows how well your product works for people with disabilities and anyone using accessibility tools. Equal Entry’s audit reveals where people get...
XR Accessibility: What Meta Horizon Worlds Teaches Us About Inclusive Virtual Reality Design
In this article, based on his presentation, Thomas Logan explores the accessibility lessons shared in a detailed presentation on Meta Horizon Worlds and the Meta Quest 3. It...
Accessibility Audits: Because Everyone Deserves to Stay in Focus
This article explains why accessibility audits are essential for websites and digital content. It shows how even small design changes can create barriers for users. The Equal Entry...
How a Blind Person Uses Social Media and AI to Drive Accessibility
James Warnken, who is legally blind, shares how his background in digital marketing led him to a career in accessibility. In this conversation, he talks about using social media to...
From Curiosity to Creation: The Story Behind Accessibility Nerd
Through his work, Cameron Cundiff develops tools to make digital spaces more inclusive. So, he created the Accessibility Nerd project to explore the intersection of technology,...
The Impact of Accessibility Laws in Canada: A Critical Perspective
In this A11y Insights podcast episode, accessibility expert Nic Steenhout shares personal stories and critiques Canada’s accessibility laws, saying they often lack enforcement. He...
Alt Text Accessibility: Balancing AI and Human Oversight
This conversation explores the challenges of writing good alt text and why relying only on AI isn’t enough. Alt text needs to match the purpose of the image and fit the context...
Accessibility Under a New U.S. President
An attorney explains that a change in the U.S. presidential administration does not eliminate legal risk, as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits and active state laws...
Captioning Lyrics and Copyright Laws
In 2015, Attorney John F. Stanton published [Song ends] Why Movie and Television Producers Should Stop Using Copyright as an Excuse to Not Caption Song Lyrics in the UCLA...
Challenging the Case for Delayed ADA Compliance
San Jose Downtown Association CEO Alex Stettinski wrote an op-ed published in San Jose Spotlight. Stettinski affirms that the association supports the Americans with Disabilities...
Stop Recreating the Wheel: Local Government Organizations Sharing Accessibility Information
Local and state government organizations should be able to share information about the accessibility of various technology products they use. If a local government organization...
Should We Think About Accessibility Differently? Privacy and Security Comparisons
Many of us working in digital accessibility feel that IT departments treat accessibility as a low priority. However, other compliance areas like privacy and security get a high...
Mootness and Its Effects on Serial Accessibility Plaintiffs
A lawsuit starts when a plaintiff files a complaint that identifies violations committed by a defendant. After a lawsuit begins, a defendant can ask the judge to dismiss the...
Hotel Accessibility Class Action Lawsuit
Flor Jimenez, a person who is legally blind, has filed a class action lawsuit in California against the Hyatt. The plaintiff alleges the hotel’s website puts up barriers for people...
Two New Artificial Intelligence Laws and Their Effects on Accessibility
For a while now, disability inclusion and accessibility professionals have expressed concerns about artificial intelligence bias against people with disabilities. Of course, this...
Building Accessibility into Social Virtual Reality Experiences
Thomas Logan completed the Edstutia Instructor Certification in Extended Reality (ICXR). He spent several months learning how to make immersive and engaging presentations in...
The European Accessibility Act and Irish Law
The purpose of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) is to ensure products and services are accessible to people with disabilities. The EAA achieves this by providing the minimum...
Digital Inclusion and Accessibility Leadership Summit in Taiwan
In a world driven by advanced technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR), the key to genuine advancement lies in embracing...
A Comparison of Automated Testing Tools for Digital Accessibility
Automated testing tools for accessibility are software applications that evaluate websites, applications, and documents for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines...
Polly Meeting Plugin Helps People and AI Collaborate on Improving Real-Time Translation
When hosting an online meeting with people from all over the world, it isn’t realistic to expect everyone to be fluent in the same language. As discussed in a previous post about...
Pushing Beyond the Boundaries of the Five Senses with Artificial Intelligence
Close your eyes and visualize a loved one. Can you see the person’s facial features? Can you visualize them with eyes open, closed, or both? Someone who experiences extremely vivid...
How to Host Accessible Multilingual Events
It’s not realistic to expect everyone attending meetings will speak the same language. That’s why it’s important to discuss how to make events accessible in more than one language....
Accessibility Lessons: Context-Sensitive Text Alternatives
Equal Entry conducts many audits. In doing the work, we make suggestions on how to make something accessible and improve the user experience. We want to share what we’ve discovered...
How Two Accessibility Consulting Companies Team Up for Accessibility Testing
AccessAbility Officer has a job readiness training program designed for non-sighted vocational rehabilitation customers who want to be digital accessibility testers. Students...
Virtual Reality: How to Implement Snap Turning in Unity for People with Disabilities
In virtual reality (VR), users can look around and interact with 3D objects inside a virtual world by wearing a headset and holding two hand controllers. Often, you have to...
Virtual Reality User Study with Children and Seniors in a VR Experience
Technology solutions often overlook children and seniors. So, Equal Entry worked with VRTogether and Azalee Group to design a user study to understand how children and seniors can...
Accessibility Lessons Learned from Blind Users Attending a User Research Study
Equal Entry held a user research study on virtual reality accessibility for blind users in New York City. This involved nine participants who commuted from their homes to the NYU...
Here’s What Happened at the First A11yTokyo
Accessibility Tokyo known as A11yTokyo is now active! A11yTokyo is a collaboration between Equal Entry and Infoaxia. Although the first Meetup was online, the monthly Meetup will...
Top 10 Accessibility News of 2022
We scoured the many news announcements to find the most talked about accessibility news of 2022. We made a list. Checked it twice. Put it all into a form for you to decide. Here...
孫とVR? VRで世代間交流に挑戦!!
This is the Japanese translation of the English blog post, “Virtual Reality User Study with Children and Seniors in a VR Experience.”...
Marketing in Accessibility
Marketing is a fun topic that’s not talked about a lot in the accessibility space. Often, marketing teams are focused on the product, the code, and making it accessible. They...
Accessibility Virtual Reality: Augmented Reality Captioned Glasses
The augmented reality technology wave provides us with a chance to build accessible hardware and software solutions from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought. Xander and...
Virtual Reality Accessibility: 11 Things We Learned from Blind Users
The current platforms and systems used in virtual reality (VR) technologies cannot be used by people who are blind. Equal Entry believes that VR should be accessible to all people...
Accessibility Virtual Reality: Accessibly (Re)Creating the Past
The reason Deb Mayers calls this (re)creation of the past is that we can’t ever be sure exactly what the past was like. The (re)construction with the parentheses around the “re”...
Assistive Technology for Kids with Multiple Disabilities
When we think about accessible video games, most of us might think about adaptations such as the Xbox adaptive controller. However, this leaves out a large population of people who...
How You Can Future-Proof and Differentiate Your Business
Just when we thought the pandemic is the biggest thing we have to deal with, then comes the Great Resignation, because we don’t have enough labor. And now there’s talk about...
Designing for Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality
Designing For Bodies: Accessibility in Virtual Reality is about the challenges developers and designers face in building accessible XR experiences when the nature of XR is an...
Virtual Accessibility Mapping, Awareness Raising, and Real-World Advocacy
Encounters with barriers to built environments, education, employment, entertainment, and healthcare in virtual reality (VR) can shape our understanding of issues faced by diverse...
Adding Alt Text in Social Virtual Reality
Imagine trying to navigate a virtual space without being able to see the objects in it. If a host tells everyone to move to the outside space and you can’t see where is outside and...
How Can a Blind Person Use Virtual Reality?
Accessibility advocate and legally blind gamer offers a deep dive into how people with low vision interact with Virtual Reality (VR), noting that while the technology can be...
Does Your Website Have Any of These 10 Most-Cited Accessibility Issues?
Equal Entry audits hundreds of web pages, from retail shopping sites to news aggregators to custom web apps that solve custom problems. We manually navigate your sites with a...
What’s the State of Accessibility in Gaming?
It wasn’t long ago that most developers knew nothing about accessibility. Ian Hamilton talks about the accessibility of gaming and whether the industry is making progress. He also...
How Virtual Reality Can Be More Accessible with WalkinVR
Imagine you’re wearing a virtual reality headset and sitting in a chair or wheelchair. You start playing Job Simulator. In one scene, you need to reach low to open the mini-freezer...
Q&A With Heather Burns, Accessibility Consultant, Equal Entry
Heather Burns is a program manager at heart, passionately curious, always looking for ways to improve anything she can. After a 20-plus-year career at Microsoft, she’s excited to...
Accessible Multimodal Input in Augmented Reality Training Applications | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
In this talk, Ashley Coffey shares PEAT research on making immersive hybrid workplaces more inclusive and accessible. She reflects on themes explored in an “Inclusive XR in the...
A Voice For Virtual Reality: The Advocate’s Role | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
How anyone can advocate for virtual reality use in healthcare? How can they go about doing it in simple ways? In this presentation, Heather Bucalos covered how the advocate of VR...
Q&A With Lori Samuels, Senior Director of Accessibility, NBCUniversal
Lori Samuels is the Senior Director of Accessibility at NBCUniversal. She leads strategic accessibility programs to institute best practices in inclusive design, provide training...
Q&A With Lainey Feingold, Disability Rights Lawyer
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. She helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United...
Accessible Tourism: How Travel Can Be Accessible for All | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
TourismForAll is a travel agency and tour operator that specializes in accessible tourism. Its mission is to provide quality services and accommodations to anyone with a disability...
Q&A With Alycia Anderson, TEDx speaker and Corporate Inclusion Consultant
Alycia Anderson is an accomplished TEDx motivational speaker, published writer, corporate inclusion consultant, and founder of The Alycia Anderson Company. Alycia’s authenticity...
Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
Zoom has thrived since March 2020. Obviously, COVID-19 prompted an interesting fundamental change in how to socialize and network with people remotely. But what about the 3D...
Q&A With Sheri Byrne-Haber, Senior Staff Architect, Accessibility at VMWare
Sheri Byrne-Haber is a prominent global subject matter expert in the fields of disability and accessibility in business and educational settings. She is best known for launching...
Introducing the XR Association’s Developers Guide on Accessibility | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
The XR Association promotes the dynamic global growth of the XR industry, which includes virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed-reality, and future immersive technology. XRA is...
Q&A With Christine Hemphill, Managing Director at Open Inclusion
Christine Hemphill is an inclusive researcher, designer, and innovator. She is the Managing Director of Open Inclusion, a global agency based in the UK that she founded in 2015 to...
Can People with Disabilities Use VR? | ID24 Recap
Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community for sharing knowledge and ideas in inclusive design. For the first time in ID24 history, a...
Virtual Reality in the Dark: VR Development for People Who Are Blind | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
Today’s commercial VR systems provide interaction methods allowing people with disabilities to experience gaming and virtual environments as never before. Aaron Gluck discussed...
Q&A With Devon Persing, Accessibility Specialist at Shopify
Devon Persing is an accessibility specialist at Shopify, and has been working in digital accessibility since 2012. Her current focus is on accessibility programming and education...
How the Accessible Usability Scale Makes User Research More Inclusive
by Alwar Pillai, CEO and Co-Founder, Fable I started Fable, an accessibility platform powered by people with disabilities because I wanted to change the status quo around...
Q&A With Wendy Chisholm, Principal Accessibility Architect, Microsoft
Wendy Chisholm is a principal accessibility architect at Microsoft. She leads AI for Accessibility, a $25 million grant program that aims to accelerate the development of...
Exploring Virtual Reality User Experience for People with Facial Palsy | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
The talk highlighted learnings about how to do research with people with facial palsy and the challenges of adapting the headset and creating experiences for them. Marg Laing and...
Captions and Beyond: Building XR software for all users | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
Captions in cross-reality (XR) provide an opportunity for participants with language barriers or hearing and speaking differences to communicate across. This talk covered the...
The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
Hubs works towards the Mozilla mission of keeping the internet open and accessible to all by providing an ecosystem for communities, organizers, educators, artists, and developers...
Q&A With Roland Dubois, Product Design Manager & UX Lead, Shop-Ware
Roland Dubois is the Product Design Manager and UX Lead at Shop-Ware, XR Accessibility at Virtuleap, publisher of the WebXRNews.com Newsletter, and creator of GRAVR — a globally...
Accessing Innovation | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
On April 27, 2021, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “Accessing Innovation.” Presenter Cat Noone — a product designer, co-founder, and CEO of Stark — the startup...
Q&A With Matt May, Head of Inclusive Design, Adobe
Matt May is Adobe’s head of inclusive design. His work includes integrating inclusive design practices across every aspect of the Adobe user experience, training and mentoring the...
Accessible Virtual Reality for People with Limited Mobility | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
Virtual reality (VR) offers new and compelling ways for users to interact with digital content. These include immersive experiences that are beneficial in various domains, such as...
Q&A With Samantha Evans, Certification Manager, IAAP
Samantha Evans is the Certification Manager at the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP). Her role focuses on promoting, guiding, and developing a series...
Q&A With Daman Wandke, CEO and Founder, Wandke Consulting
With a lifelong passion for Disability Advocacy, entrepreneur Daman Wandke has ten years of experience testing IT Accessibility in the public and private sector. He has worked with...
Q&A With Sharron Rush, Executive Director, Knowbility
Sharron Rush is the award-winning co-founder and Executive Director of Knowbility, nonprofit advocacy, consulting, and training company based in Austin, Texas. Since 1998, Sharron...
Oculus Has VR Accessibility Guidelines, But Audio Descriptions Are Missing
The Oculus Developer Blog has published a post in November called Introducing the Accessibility VRCs. These nine Virtual Reality Checks (VRC) are a set of technical recommendations...
Q&A With Dr. Joel Snyder, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC
Dr. Joel Snyder is President of Audio Description Associates, LLC and Director of the Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind. One of the first audio describers,...
Q&A With Meryl Evans, Digital Marketing Expert
Meryl K. Evans is a Digital Marketing Pro, and author of Brilliant Outlook Pocketbook and the co-author of Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites. How did you get...
Q&A With Sarah Pulis, Co-Founder, Intopia
Sarah Pulis has worked in digital accessibility and inclusive design for over 10 years. She co-founded Intopia over 4 years ago which is now the largest digital accessibility...
From Hack to Product Feature – How to Leverage R&D at Work Through Hackathons | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On July 16, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled “From Hack to Product Feature – How to Leverage R&D at Work Through Hackathons.” Presenter Roland Dubois, Lead Product...
The Way for the VR World: FOR EVERYONE! | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
August 27, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled “The Way for the VR World : FOR EVERYONE!” Presenter Nicolas Perret, 3dRudder Senior Principal Software Engineer,...
Q&A With Bill Curtis-Davidson, Sr. Consultant for Emerging Tech Accessibility, Wheelhouse Group
Bill Curtis-Davidson is a Senior Consultant – Emerging Tech Accessibility at Wheelhouse Group, supporting PEAT’s Future of Work Initiative. In this role, he works to advance...
Professional Testers with Disabilities | Accessibility Chicago Meetup Recap
On June 9, 2020, Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design hosted a Meetup entitled Professional Testers with Disabilities. Presenter Heather Burns, an Accessibility...
Ideas for A11y Programs in XR Tech Companies | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On June 18, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled Ideas for A11y Programs in XR Tech Companies. Presenter Bill Curtis-Davidson, former Sr. Manager of Accessibility at...
Improving Mobility by Assisting Cognition: A Case Study | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On July 2, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled Improving Mobility by Assisting Cognition: A Case Study. Presenter Romain Delgrange, cognitive psychologist and...
Q&A With Mariella Paulino, Founder, Project Hearing
Mariella Paulino creates systems and tools that center on helping people interact better with the world around them. As a Deaf technologist, she has worked in tech as a software...
VR Interactions – A Comparison Between Gaze, Controller and Hand | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On May 21, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled VR Interactions – A Comparison Between Gaze, Controller and Hand. Presenter Sam Qorbani, a digital media designer...
Designing a Participatory Design Workshop | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On June 4, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled “Designing a Participatory Design Workshop.” Presenter Indira Knight, design researcher and developer at the Helen Hamlyn...
A Future Date – Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Accessibility advocates from around the world came together last week to hold A Future Date, a virtual conference hosted on YouTube of curated sessions from cancelled major...
Intopia Joins the International Alliance
In December 2019, Equal Entry, TetraLogical and Infoaxia jointly announced a new international accessibility alliance. Today we are pleased to announce that Intopia has joined us....
Universal Immersive Design | Accessibility VR Meetup Recap
On April 16, 2020, Accessibility VR hosted a Meetup entitled “Universal Immersive Design.” Presenter Doug North Cook, founding faculty for the Immersive Media programs at Chatham...
Q&A With Larry Goldberg, Head of Accessibility, Verizon Media
Larry Goldberg leads Accessibility at Verizon Media. In 1990, he founded and directed the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, an R&D center for new media policy, standards...
Digital Accessibility Lawsuits in 2019: A Year in Review
2019 was another banner year for lawsuits filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III alleging discrimination on the basis of digital accessibility. Suits filed...
Designing Together: Co-Designing a VR Therapy | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
On March 3, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled “Designing Together: Co-Designing a VR Therapy.” Presenter Indira Knight, Design Researcher from the Helen...
Q&A With Debra Ruh, CEO and Founder, Ruh Global IMPACT
Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur,...
Designing for Assistive Tech in Adobe XD | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
On February 4th, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled “Designing for Assistive Tech in Adobe XD”. Presenter Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineer at Adobe, gave a...
Q&A With Xian Horn, Contributor at Forbes Online
Xian Horn is a joyful half-Asian woman with Cerebral Palsy who serves as a teacher, speaker, beauty advocate, blogger and Exemplar for the AT&T NYU Connect Ability Challenge toward...
EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
On January 7, 2020, Accessibility New York City hosted a Meetup entitled “EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility.” Presenter Zarina Mustapha, Senior...
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: A Recap
Every year on December 3rd, the United Nations (UN) celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities by holding an event at its headquarters in Manhattan, NY. Since I...
Tactile Design for Accessibility | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
On December 3, 2019, Accessibility New York City hosted a meetup entitled “Tactile Design for Accessibility.” Presenter Lauren Race, Research Fellow at the NYU Ability Project,...
Q&A With Regine Gilbert, UX Designer and Educator, NYU
Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief...
Q&A With John Samuel, Head of LCI Tech
In celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we are excited to feature John Samuel, Head of LCI Tech, a North Carolina-based firm that employs Americans with...
The Vessel: Is NYC’s Newest Landmark Accessible for All?
When I first heard about The Vessel, New York City’s new interactive landmark created by Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio, I was curious how they would incorporate...
Equal Entry and LCI Tech Partner for an Enhanced Accessibility Experience
LCI is one of the largest employers of Americans who are blind and visually impaired, currently employing over 350 individuals that are blind or low vision. LCI creates over 2,000...
Q&A With Makoto Ueki, Director, Infoaxia, Inc.
Makoto Ueki is a web accessibility expert based in Tokyo, Japan. His company Infoaxia provides a wide range of accessibility consulting services with full support for compliance...
Disability Pride Parade NYC 2019: Event Recap
On Sunday, July 14, New York City held its Fifth Annual Disability Pride Parade, organized by the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) and Disability Pride NYC....
M-Enabling 2019: Summit Recap
Intro and Overview The M-Enabling Summit Conference and Showcase was held in Washington DC June 17 – 19. M-Enabling is dedicated to promoting accessible and assistive technologies,...
Q&A With Ruth Starr, Accessibility Manager, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Ruth Starr is an arts administrator and educator currently serving as the inaugural Accessibility Manager at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Cooper Hewitt is committed to...
Q&A With Emily Ladau, Activist and Digital Communications Consultant
Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame...
Q&A With Christopher Hills, Switch Accessibility and Video Production Engineer
Christopher Hills is a Switch Accessibility and Video Production Engineer based in Brisbane, Australia. He is a passionate storyteller, utilizing the power of video and technology...
Using iPhone One-Handed With the Popsocket
As smartphones increase in size, they also become increasingly difficult to use with one hand. This has become such a common problem for everyone and not just people with...
Q&A With Léonie Watson, Accessibility Engineer and Director, TetraLogical
Léonie Watson is Director of TetraLogical, an inclusive design company focused on emerging and existing technologies, customer experience, and research and development, combined...
Q&A With Avi Golden, Paramedic and Speech Language Pathologist
In early June 2007, at 33 years of age, Avi Golden was admitted to Columbia Hospital in New York for surgery on an mitral valve prolapse (MVP) repair that was discovered near the...
Does the Xbox Adaptive Controller Deliver on the Hype?
I’d been looking forward to the release of the Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC) since it was announced. Like so many other millennials, I loved playing video games as a young child,...
The Challenge of Paratransit in New York City
With 948,208 people with disabilities living in the five boroughs of New York City as of 2014, the availability of accessible transit options is of immense importance in order for...
Q&A with Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineering Leader
Cameron Cundiff is a software engineering leader with a focus on Voice UI and digital accessibility. His work in accessibility has been recognized by the White House, and others....
Q&A with Jonathan Paul Katz, Civil Servant and Writer
Jonathan Paul Katz is a civil servant and writer in New York City. For his job, he writes content and makes accessible communications for a City agency. He is interested in access...
Tech Inclusion New York 2018 Highlights
My first year attending Tech Inclusion New York left me with some very strong feelings. I’d found it so intellectually stimulating, but felt disappointed at the level of inclusion...
Q&A with Adina Halter, Sr. Product Manager and Chief Technologist for Accessibility at Comcast
Adina Halter is Sr. Product Manager and Chief Technologist for Accessibility at Comcast where she ensures the accessibility of all Comcast products from web, to mobile apps, set...
Build Your Accessibility Evaluation Toolkit: Presentation Recap
On May 17, 2018, Equal Entry CEO Thomas Logan was a featured presenter at NYC Digital Inclusion & Accessibility 2018. The one-day conference for City employees was co-hosted by...
Q&A with Grace Jun, Assistant Professor at the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design
Grace Jun is a designer, educator, and social entrepreneur based in New York. By merging fashion with technology, she pushes the boundaries of universal design to be inclusive of...
Q&A with Tim Springer, CEO of Level Access
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Tim Springer, CEO of Level Access. He also led the development of InFocus, the first commercial software...
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, Gives Presentation at Princeton University
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently delivered a presentation at Princeton University about APS technology. APS stands for Accessible Pedestrian Signal Device. You may have...
Section 508 Refresh: Five Things You Should Know
The Section 508 requirements were established in 1998, and they require Federal agencies to develop and procure technology accessible to people with disabilities. Over the past 20...
Q&A with Karen Gourgey, Chair of the Executive Board of the NY State Commission for the Blind
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Karen Gourgey, Chair of the Executive Board of the NY State Commission for the Blind. She has also...
The Leap Motion Controller: Good for Users with Motor Differences?
by Sam Berman The Leap Motion Controller is an exciting new navigation and interaction device for virtual reality and personal computing on both Mac and Windows platforms. This...
How Various Screen Readers Work on Mobile Devices
by Sofia Gallo Most iPhone owners do not even know it exists, but every Apple phone comes with a feature called VoiceOver — a screen reader that allows visually impaired people to...
The State of Accessibility and VR, Part 1
The most popular application of VR as it stands now is gaming. Never has this been more obvious than with the opening of VR World, New York City’s first virtual reality arcade....
How Various Screen Readers Work on the Web
by Sofia Gallo One of the questions I often get from my friends is, “How do you use the internet?” After all, at first glance, a computer seems like a visual tool – looking at the...
Thoughts on One-Handed Typing
How does typing with one hand affect someone’s experience on the modern web? Sam Berman, Accessibility Consultant at Equal Entry, shares his thoughts on the matter in this short...
Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for People with Disabilities
by Sam Berman Like many people, my first direct, real-world interaction with artificial intelligence was with Siri on my iPhone. It was the first implementation of artificial...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking: Then & Now
Equal Entry delivers more than reports; we deliver results. As experts in accessible technology, we conduct comprehensive audits on desktop, mobile, and assistive applications like...
“Writing Government Information for People with Disabilities”
Earlier this month, Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup at thoughtbot titled “Writing Government Information for People with Disabilities.” The presenter was Jonathan Katz, Content...
TBT: “I Am Colorblind, And You Can Too!”
Accessibility NYC hosted a Meetup last year at thoughtbot, titled “I Am Colorblind, and You Can Too!” The presenter was Jake Voytko, a senior software engineer at Etsy. Voytko...
Are Your Images on Social Media Accessible?
Equal Entry believes that authoring tools should be available on all social media platforms, so that the content can be made accessible to everyone. Here is Thomas Logan, Equal...
Watch Equal Entry’s Presentation on Software Developer Kits
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently gave a presentation in Chicago titled, “Software Development Kits and Accessibility.” Logan’s presentation is now available online with...
Q&A with Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor for Princeton University
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Damian Sian, Senior Web Accessibility Advisor for Princeton University. Sian is also the owner of...
Q&A with Ken Nakata, Director of Accessibility Consulting at Cryptzone
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Ken Nakata, the Director of Accessibility Consulting at Cryptzone. Nakata is the former Senior Trial...
Q&A with Bryan Garaventa, Founder of WhatSock
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Bryan Garaventa. He is the founder of WhatSock and an Accessibility Fellow at SSB BART Group....
Second Annual Accessibility Camp in NYC is a Success
New York City’s second accessibility camp was hosted at NYU MAGNET2 Metrotech Center on Saturday September 17, 2016. Focusing on users with different disabilities, sessions covered...
Interview with Shauna Keating, Digital Artist and Inclusive Design Advocate
Shauna Keating gave an excellent presentation at Accessibility New York City earlier this month, and we wanted to speak with her about the important work she is doing. Keating is a...
Q&A with Svetlana Kouznetsova, Founder of Audio Accessibility
The latest installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Svetlana Kouznetsova, founder of Audio Accessibility, a consulting service that helps make audio,...
Q&A with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer
The newest installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Bob Paradiso, Independent Rehab Engineer. With a background in programming video games, Paradiso...
Q&A with Beth Rosenberg, Founder of Tech Kids Unlimited
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Beth Rosenberg, founder of Tech Kids Unlimited, an educational organization for kids ages 8 to 18 with...
Using Cortana and Speech Recognition Together on Windows 10
One of the holy grails of computing is to one day be able to have machines perform perfect speech recognition. The ability to control computers with speech benefits everyone, but...
Q&A with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer for SSB Bart Group. Avila is also a participant in the WCAG...
Q&A with Mirabai Knight, Realtime Captioner
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Mirabai Knight, a realtime captioner. Knight is also a contributor to the StenoSpeak for Android...
Q&A with John Kirkwood, Entrepreneur
This installment of our Accessibility Activists is an interview with John Kirkwood from CityMouse, one of New York’s first independent Internet media agencies. When did you first...
An Interview with Alexander Shutov, Creator of Dark Reader Plugin
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Alexander Shutov, creator of Dark Reader, a Chrome plugin that adjusts the color contrast in your...
Q&A with Thad Johnston: Making a Physical Board Game Accessible for Blind and Low Vision Players
Let’s start from the beginning. How did you come up with the idea of making a board game be accessible? It started early last year, in March, when I started working with a student...
Making a Colorful Video Game Work for Color Blind Gamers
Zuma, a tile-matching puzzle video game created by PopCap Games, continues to be one of the most popular free games on the internet. During play, colored balls roll around the...
How to DJ Using Only Your Eyes
Music allows people around the world to creatively express their thoughts and feelings. For people who share this passion, losing the ability to make music would be a depressing...
Tiny Fonts Don’t Rock the Vote
The New York Times reports that a recent local election frustrated many citizens by printing information on the ballot in a nearly illegible 7pt font. There is no New York state...