Upcoming Webinar | When Should Testing with Assistive Technologies Take Place?
Date: April 10, 2025 Starts at: 2 PM (EST)
Building assistive technology testing into your web accessibility workflow is important. But where exactly does it fit?
Webinar Video | Meta Smart Glasses Meet Accessibility
Date: January 30, 2025 Starts at: 2 PM (EST)
A first-hand overview and demo of Meta Smart Glasses and how they can help people with disabilities.
Webinar Video | Assistive Technologies
Date: October 10, 2024 Time: 2 – 2:30 PM (EST)
Learn about different types of assistive technologies including screen readers and alternative input devices.
CSUN 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 […]
A Case for Usability and UX Testing
“Nothing About Us, Without Us” If real assistive technology users haven’t tested your website, how do you know it’s truly barrier-free for people with disabilities? You really can’t. That’s why it’s important to include people with disabilities in your web design and accessibility remediation process. Usability/UX testing is your opportunity to have real users test […]
UX Testing – Refreshable Braille Displays
User experience testing with real users will identify accessibility and usability issues not captured through automated processes. Our experienced testers will navigate through your website using their assistive technology, including refreshable braille displays. What is Braille? Braille is a symbolic system used to represent print using raised dots that a person with visual impairments can […]
Breaking Down Communication Barriers: RogerVoice
Olivier Jannel founded RogerVoice, an app that provides a live transcript of phone calls in over 100 languages, with a mission to break down communication barriers. Inspired by smartphones’ evolving capabilities, as well as his own experiences navigating the world as hearing impaired, he knew he had to create something and differentiate it from other […]
Apple’s New Software Updates and Service, SignTime.
Apple Inc. recently announced new software updates designed to enhance the experience for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities. These updates, all slated to be available later this year, are being released across multiple Apple devices. People with limb differences will be able to navigate Apple Watch using AssistiveTouch. iPad will support third-party […]
Micro-volunteering in Accessibility: Be My Eyes
Hans Jørgen Wiberg, a visually impaired furniture craftsman, started Be My Eyes to become more independent. Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people seeking visual assistance with a network of volunteers via video calls. How it works: This expands beyond the day-to-day tasks. Their Be My Eyes for Work […]
Assistive Technology Focus: Sip and Puff Devices
Most types of assistive technology we’ve outlined in previous posts, require the use of one’s hands, motor capacity or mobility of another part of the body in order to use computer devices and the internet. That’s why, for our next post in our Assistive Technology Focus series, we’re going to discuss Sip and Puff devices. […]