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There are apparently two schools of thought on how heading tags should be used on a web page. Some say that you should properly nest them (e.g., h1 followed by h2, h2 followed by h2 or h3, h3 followed by h3 or h4, etc.). For others, the proper nesting of heading tags is not so [...]

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Draft of the Section 508 standards refresh is available for review.

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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 [...]

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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 of [...]

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Earlier today, my friend Lainey Feingold put up a great blog post about a comprehensive web accessibility settlement agreement involving the New York State Attorney General’s Office.  The settlement agreement involves HSBC Card Services.  The settlement agreement requires, among other things, that HSBC make its website conform to WCAG 2.0, level AA.
This isn’t the first time that [...]

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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 [...]

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Many times great effort and resource is put into making sure that a site is compliant with Section 508 or the WCAG requirements. All the ALT text is in place, input fields have labels, headings and page titles are used, etc. Everything is set and ready to go…at least from a technical standpoint.
What often gets [...]

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I hadn’t really thought about it but our posts focus on a lot of specific accessibility issues.  That being said we haven’t gotten too deep into the conception of accessibility and the guidelines, rules and/or regulations themselves.
I thought maybe it was a good time to put up a few posts that just lay out some [...]

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I’ve stopped babbling about techno stuff and going back to what I do best– being a legal policy wonk on IT accessibility.  In a previous post, I blogged about the Target suit and promised I’d get back to it.  Well, I still haven’t had a chance to really focus on that, but one point that [...]

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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 [...]

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