Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2023
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is on May 18. As many of us know, accessibility is not a one-off project; it is an ongoing effort that requires knowledge, resources, and commitment. Here are some tips for celebrating and reaffirming your organization’s commitment to accessibility this GAAD. Take a course in Accessible Web Academy Did you […]
New Manual Auditing Tab in RAMP
Easily organize manual testing work with the new Manual Auditing tab in RAMP. We’ve set out to make managing manual testing easier with the introduction of a new Manual Auditing tab. Since automated scanning only captures a percentage of accessibility issues, we encourage all users to perform a manual audit to reach true WCAG conformance. […]
WCAG Level AA versus AAA
There are three conformance levels in the WCAG Guidelines, Level A (the lowest level), Level AA, and Level AAA (the highest level). These levels of conformance build on each other, adding additional success criteria at each level. Each level is progressively harder to achieve. Level AA is the most commonly referenced accessibility standard, cited by most laws and regulations. Level […]
New Automated Scanning View for RAMP
We’ve heard your feedback and made some changes to make your favorite features easier than ever to access in RAMP. As a result, you’ll notice some changes to the navigation menu in your website’s RAMP account. There are now separate tabs for managing pages and viewing automated scan data: the “Pages” and “Automated Scanning” tabs, […]
Colorado’s New Accessibility Law for Government Entities
If you work for a government entity in Colorado, now is the time to get serious about achieving WCAG 2.1 AA conformance. Colorado House Bill 21-1110 aims to ensure that state services, digital platforms, and content meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards for accessibility by July 1, 2024. Since we are a little more than a […]
Agency Accessibility: Selling Accessibility as an Ongoing Service
Web accessibility work is often sold as one-time project work, performed at the end of a website build. However, we recommend considering accessibility during a website buildout and beyond as a client’s website grows and standards change. Waiting to address accessibility until the end of website project is like building a commercial building and addressing […]
Agency Accessibility: Shifting Accessibility All the Way Left
The best time to start addressing accessibility design for your agency is from your very first conversation with the client. Here’s how. In developer parlance “shifting left” means performing testing and tasks typically done later in a development process to earlier steps. As a concept, it’s typically meant to increase efficiency by ensuring you don’t […]
What’s new in WCAG 2.2?
This post was updated on August 11, 2023. We get questions on a daily basis about 2.2 so we asked our WCAG expert Alaina Birney, CPWA, to discuss the upcoming changes. We’ve included her detailed notes below. WCAG 2.2 is now available across our suite of tools! Start scanning now or get in touch to […]
DOJ Expected to Issue Public Entity Web Accessibility Regulations
The U.S. Department of Justice will draft web accessibility regulations for public entities this May 2023. The United States currently lacks clear legal guidelines around web accessibility standards and enforcement, for public and private entities alike. The absence of clear regulation has led to confusion and the continued proliferation of accessibility barriers online, including among […]
Agency Accessibility: Selling Accessibility to Current Clients
It can be tempting to ignore accessibility at your agency, but why not sell it as a service instead? In 2010, I created a “digital marketing” department at an agency in Central Florida. Mobile-friendly sites and SEO proved to be the most lucrative among these digital services, so I wanted to start pitching them to […]