Accessibility and WCAG Standards – Page 2

The Latest Step Toward Federally Regulated Website Accessibility Standards

Friday, July 26th, 2019 by Drew McManus

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 ruling on whether businesses must provide accessible websites. In a nutshell, businesses are becoming weary of …

Food For Thought: Website Accessibility Driven Lawsuits

Monday, April 22nd, 2019 by Drew McManus

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 ADA standards are, at best, murky. Part of confusion comes from a separate set of standards …

You Don’t Have To Be A Frontend Developer To Take Advantage Of Frontend Dev Tools

Sunday, April 21st, 2019Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 by Drew McManus

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 extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers that allows you to quickly check and adjust color contrast …

You Don’t Have To Be A Code Jockey To Begin Making Your Site Accessible

Sunday, April 21st, 2019Thursday, November 29th, 2018 by Drew McManus

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 management related tasks you can do to improve web accessibility. The good news is there are …

Forget Coat Check, You Need To Color Check

Sunday, April 21st, 2019Friday, November 16th, 2018 by Drew McManus

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 English, these are the standards that let people with disabilities interact with your online content. As of …