How to Determine If a Company Knows About Digital Accessibility
An organization held a training session for more than 400 attendees. The purpose of the training was to educate attendees on digital accessibility. In the audience were a few...
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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...
Accessibility Virtual Reality Meetup: What Is It Like in Spatial?
Accessibility Virtual Reality (A11yVR) Meetup has held many of its meetups in Mozilla Hubs. We’ve had one in AltspaceVR. And now we’ve tried our third virtual reality environment...
Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text with Jared Smith
Most of our time online is typically spent reading text, yet we don’t often consider how accessible that text is. The typefaces, fonts, and text styling used can have a significant...
How It’s Possible to Create an Accessible Tactile Drawing
Thomas Logan and I met with Chancey Fleet at New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. We explored the library where we found many books filled...
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...
Why Accessible Pedestrian Signals Are Now a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
Photo credit: Andi Weiland | Boehringer Ingelheim, Societypix.org In this article, my friends Ken Nakata from Converge Accessibility, Josef Pevsner from National Organization on...
Overlays Underwhelm | Accessibility NYC Meetup Recap
Accessibility overlays bring promises of accessible sites in one line of code, but experiences from users tell us the opposite. At a previous A11yNYC Meetup, Adrian Roselli looks...
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...
The Infamous Eyebobs Web Accessibility Lawsuit: Here’s What You Want to Know
In this article, Ken Nakata from Converge Accessibility, Josef Pevsner from National Organization on Disability, and I come together to discuss and analyze the consent decree [PDF]...