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Accessibility and WCAG Standards

The Latest Step Toward Federally Regulated Website Accessibility Standards

Fri, Jul 7, 2019
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 100
We’ve been tracking the issue of website accessibility through a series of articles over the past few years and for those following the topic, you’ve likely noticed the drift from being self-regulated best practice toward government mandated requirements. The latest development comes via Domino’s Pizza, which is asking the Supreme Court to issue a clear
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Food For Thought: Website Accessibility Driven Lawsuits

Mon, Apr 4, 2019
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 157
The 4/19/2019 edition of artsy.net published an article by Claire Voon that reports on a pair of lawsuits filed separated by two legally blind plaintiffs against dozens of New York City art galleries that their websites allegedly violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As the article points out, issues of websites and accessibility via
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You Don’t Have To Be A Frontend Developer To Take Advantage Of Frontend Dev Tools

Wed, Jan 1, 2019
by Drew McManus
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If one of your New Year’s resolutions is digging into content management tasks at your website with an eye toward accessibility, I have a terrific insider tip to make the job of color contrast compliance much easier. I published an article at ArtsHacker that provides step by step instructions on how to use Kontrast, an
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You Don’t Have To Be A Code Jockey To Begin Making Your Site Accessible

Thu, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 030
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I published an article at ArtsHacker about how website content managers can begin improving web accessibility by way of user-friendly tools to check color contrast. The response from colleagues and readers was terrific and per those suggestions, I decided to expand this into an ongoing series focusing on all the content
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Forget Coat Check, You Need To Color Check

Fri, Nov 11, 2018
by Drew McManus
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If you aren’t already aware of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), there’s no better time than the present to get started. WCAG is a central element of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the Internet. In
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