Posted under Accessibility in the News
Written by: Mike Adams
With today’s economy and increasing use of IT it should come as no surprise that if you’re looking for work the internet is where you’ll need to be. The lack of IT accessibility becomes glaringly obvious as this PDF article in Journal of Usability Studies outlines. Sadly, if you can’t apply to a job then [...]
Read more: Does a Disability Limit Your Job Options?...Posted under Accessibility and PDF & Accessibility in the News & Developer & Development
Written by: Jeff Singleton
It sure is nice to see these advancements being made in products like these. The hope is that the industry as a whole will follow the Adobe’s example!
Read more: Adobe expanding the accessibility of Acrobat and Flash!...Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Mike Adams
While this may not be of much use to our development followers I am very intrigued by this push for new standards in a way that can obviously benefit many. It really isn’t a secret that many of us no longer rely on going into a bank and utilizing the tellers. Direct deposits, automatic bill [...]
Read more: House Bill 6305: ATM Visually Impaired-Friendly Act...Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Accessibility in the News & Developer & Development & Internet Explorer & Keyboard Shortcuts & Legal & Policy & section 508 & Testing & WCAG
Written by: Jeff Singleton
The CKEditor is the newest release of the popular open source web page text editor formally known as the FCKEditor. Unfortunately the previous name was often misrepresented as the [bad word] editor. So the name has been updated and hopefully this will avoid any unpleasant or offensive connections in the future. I first became aware [...]
Read more: Is the new CKEditor accessible?...Posted under Accessibility in the News & Accessibility Resource & Developer & section 508 & WCAG
Written by: Mike Adams
I’m going to take a slightly different twist with some posts here as I concede that the many can accomplish far more than a few. I find and read so many great posts that I didn’t think it was fair to limit the knowledge we pass to you simply because it came from another source. [...]
Read more: Accessibility Resource: Adobe Flash Accessibility…...Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Mike Adams
I stumbled across a very important post in the accessibility world yesterday. As Attorney General Cuomo secured a nationwide agreement with HSBC which basically came under fire as their services weren’t fully accessible to those with disabilities. A blind customer in this case was attempting to dispute a credit card transaction and was repeatedly told [...]
Read more: HSBC & Accessibility...Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
When I awoke this morning, a colleague of mine from the east coast called to tell me incredible news– the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) settled their long-standing lawsuit against Target Corporation for its inaccessible website for over $6 million! This is really big news that ends two and a half years of bitter [...]
Read more: Target Website Accessibility Lawsuit Settles Today!...