March 17th 2010
Posted under Legal & Policy & section 508
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Draft of the Section 508 standards refresh is available for review.
Read more: Section 508 refresh draft ready for preview!...Archive for the 'Legal & Policy' Category
September 8th 2009
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...
September 4th 2009
Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Accessibility in the News & Developer & Development & Internet Explorer & Keyboard Shortcuts & Legal & Policy & Testing & WCAG & section 508
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 of [...]
September 2nd 2009
Posted under Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
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 [...]
September 2nd 2009
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...
August 11th 2009
Posted under Legal & Policy & Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
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 [...]
February 23rd 2009
Posted under 1194.22 & Legal & Policy & section 508
Written by: Mike Adams
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 [...]
September 15th 2008
Posted under Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
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 [...]
Read more: Web Accessibility: Unruh and ADA Title III...
August 27th 2008
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!...