Missing These Ten Areas Puts Your Website at Risk Inaccessible websites and applications not only reduce your opportunity to reach a growing segment of the population—they put your organization at legal risk. We’ve written this accessibility checklist to help you better understand the fundamental categories that make online content easier to navigate, use, and understand by individuals with disabilities. Many of these categories are often overlooked when developing online content. A full-scale web accessibility[…]
READ MORE about Digital Accessibility Checklist: 10 Critical Elements to Evaluate for Website AccessibilityDisability Inclusion is Becoming Prominent Across All Age Groups
Accessibility in the News—06/02/2017. Inclusion is a strong focus in today’s accessible world, all the way from gaming, to mapping applications. Striving to include individuals regardless of their disability is what many businesses and people have focused on in this week’s news stories: Some ways that companies are becoming more inclusive is by eliminating technology barriers. Social inclusion in elementary schools all the way to colleges is also giving our future generations the mentality and compassion[…]
READ MORE about Disability Inclusion is Becoming Prominent Across All Age GroupsGains in Inclusivity for People with Disabilities, Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2017
Accessibility in the News—May 26, 2017 From airlines and apps to architecture and much more, this week’s news covers notable strides (including the “most accessible meeting ever“) that will ease or have eased many situations for people with disabilities. Some initiatives enable even those with profound disabilities to attend sporting events. Progress stems from greater awareness and inclusive initiatives across various sectors (education, tech, government, theater, gaming) and across U.S.-based and international communities. Global Accessibility Awareness Day, observed the[…]
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Accessibility in the News—5/19/17. Whether its an election’s website accessibility, the mortgage industry’s website accessibility or even segregation due to a disability, it is important to consider the barriers that people with disabilities encounter when interacting with organizations online. Designing for all abilities in both the digital and physical worlds is a task that many governments and businesses have struggled with. But many individuals and organizations push forward with innovations, new policies, and awareness activities[…]
READ MORE about Global Accessibility Awareness Day, AccessU 2017John Slatin AccessU 2017 Conference Backchannel
The John Slatin AccessU 2017 Conference (#ACCESSU2017) sponsored by Knowbility is being held at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas on May 17, 18-2017. Microassist is sending ten team members from our learning and development team to AccessU. Among them are: Chief Technology Officer Hiram Kuykendall – Hiram is a speaker at AccessU. He will have two sessions—Accessibility of Things, OpenAIR: Creating an Online Mentor Based Accessibility Training Program VP of Sales[…]
READ MORE about John Slatin AccessU 2017 Conference BackchannelState Accessibility IT Services Contract Awarded to Microassist
New DIR Accessibility Contract Provides Accessible Websites, Online Training, Applications, Documents, and More. Microassist is pleased to announce it has been awarded contract DIR-TSO-3813: Accessibility IT Services from the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR). This contract will help ensure your software platforms, online content and training, digital documents, and more comply with state accessibility requirements. What Does Microassist’s DIR Accessibility IT Services Contract Provide? Contracted offerings abide by international,[…]
READ MORE about State Accessibility IT Services Contract Awarded to MicroassistAccessibility Improvements Urged for Transportation, “Smart” Cities; Higher Ed Pursues Inclusion
Accessibility in the News—May 5, 2017 The need for transportation and related infrastructure accessibility improvements took the spotlight this week, with New York being the prime focus. Recent lawsuits say the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway system throughout New York City, is responsible for running the least accessible subway system out of all major U.S. cities. And, at the Smart Cities NYC conference, nonprofit and technology groups addressed the risk of developing high-tech government service delivery[…]
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Accessibility in the News—04/28/17. Government is the driving force for disability rights in every country. Without government, there would be no laws protecting disability rights or enforcing accessibility standards. This week’s news articles have a large focus on government laws, litigation, and accessibility lawsuits, particularly in the higher education space. At The University of California Berkeley, a Justice Department decision prompted the university to remove 20,000 digital lectures due to[…]
READ MORE about Government Forcing Accessibility Standards ImplementationAccessible Travel: Up in the Air and Down on Land
Accessibility in the News—4/21/17. This week brought up travel accommodation issues for many with disabilities. There’s the transportation aspect — For instance, how well do planes, trains, busses or cars meet the needs for people with mobility or visual disabilities traveling from one city or country to another? But what about enjoying the actual destination? This week includes news on tools that help identify facilities with accessible features. That’s the[…]
READ MORE about Accessible Travel: Up in the Air and Down on LandHigher Education and Accessibility: Tackling Facilities Access, Online Access, and Inclusion
Accessibility in the News—4/13/17. Colleges and universities have been in the accessibility spotlight recently, and this issue showcases a host of initiatives and needs within that sector. Here’s some of the goings on with higher education and accessibility: In Cincinnati, the student body is pursuing more immediately accessible digital content for both its websites and elearning programs. In New York, Cornell has documented its commitment to web accessibility and continues to[…]
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