What Is the California Assembly Bill on Website Accessibility?
California is considering adopting a new law (AB-1757) that adopts Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA as the level of accessibility that websites and mobile...
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States Need to Pay Attention to Oklahoma Mobile ID App Accessibility Court Case
The Department of Justice found that Oklahoma’s Mobile ID app violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by maintaining a visual-only facial scanning requirement that made...
What the Quest Lawsuit Means for Kiosk Accessibility
Quest Diagnostics offers laboratory services. At a doctor’s request, patients visit a Quest location for blood draws and other lab procedures. The company installed digital...
Air Travel Accessibility: Are We Really in a Golden Age?
It’s not news that traveling on airplanes is fraught with challenges for people with disabilities. In late 2021, Disability Advocate Engracia Figueroa died after an airline damaged...
Disability Complaints Against Educational Institutions
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) investigated the New College of Florida for not making its website and social media accessible to everyone. A public...
Digital Accessibility and Civil Rights: The 2023 Legal Landscape
This article is based on an A11yNYC talk given by Lainey Feingold, a disability rights lawyer, public speaker, and author. What is digital accessibility? Accessibility is captions....
What Do the Exceptions in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Accessibility of Web Information for Educational Institutions Mean?
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) [PDF] on how to update the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to...
Accessibility Options in Virtual Reality Gaming: A Case Study with Myst
There’s no such thing as 100% accessibility. There will always be at least one person who prefers something different from the majority. If there’s one thing video games are known...
Accessibility: What You Need to Know About a Supreme Court Case of Hotel Websites
A Supreme Court case about the accessibility of hotel websites has understandably caught the attention of the disability and accessibility community. Here’s the short version....
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...
Real AI Solutions for Accessibility Challenges
This article is based on a talk Kevin Berg, VP of solution engineering at Evinced, gave at A11yNYC . Artificial intelligence (AI) can help solve the digital accessibility problem....
What an Economist Article Says About Website Accessibility and Lawsuits
When a major worldwide publication writes about accessible websites, we take notice. That’s exactly what happened when the Economist published Lawsuits over disabled Americans’...