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 […]
CSUNÂ Assistive Technology Conference 2023
The Accessible Web team had the pleasure of attending this year’s CSUN Assistive Technology Conference out in California. For the last 37 years, the CSUN Conference has been organized by California State University, Northridge’s Center on Disabilities, and serves as an opportunity for industry leaders, researchers, educators, and technology users to come together around the […]
Agencies! How Your SEO Experience Helps Accessibility
Your SEO experience can directly help you on your accessibility journey. It is not a coincidence that both Accessible Web’s founders and even yours truly are all former search engine optimizers. Optimizing a website for search engines and users with disabilities is a similar pursuit. SEO makes a website accessible to search engine technology while […]
Accessible Web Auditor Coauthors Web Accessibility Study
Our own Meagan Griffith coauthored an article in the journal Interacting with Computers. The research paper entitled “Quantifying the Cost of Web Accessibility Barriers for Blind Users” looks at the issue of web accessibility from a different angle than many of the articles on the subject that come before it. Lots of research has been […]
Automated WCAG Scanning Versus Manual Auditing of Websites
In the journey of making an accessible website addressing WCAG conformance, the process of aligning a website’s code and content to internationally recognized standards, is often the bulk of the project. Fortunately, automated website scanners, like the one found in RAMP, speed up this work by surfacing a wide range of accessibility issues across a […]
Introducing Accessible Web RAMP Recommended Action Items
RAMP’s new recommendations feature uncovers the most pervasive accessibility issues quickly, makes it easy to turn a recommendation into a task, and automatically closes out tasks once rescanned to verify a fix. Automated page scanning is a great tool to quickly identify accessibility issues on a website. While scanning only identifies some types of issue […]