“When you incent, people optimize for reward. When you inspire, people optimize for purpose.” – Michael Norton This quote, tweeted by Joseph O’Connor a couple weeks ago, caused me to consider the things that best motivate people to implement accessibility. We at WebAIM spend at least as much time motivating for change as we do […]
Translation A translation of this post is available at http://financesonline.com/WebAIM_10Tips.html courtesy of FinancesOnline. Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To celebrate and to help promote accessibility, here are 10 simple accessibility tips that most anyone can implement today into their web site’s HTML and CSS to make it more accessible. 1. Add Alternative Text […]
Results of WebAIM’s recent survey for those with low vision are now available at http://webaim.org/projects/lowvisionsurvey/. A few highlights are found below. The results of our motor disabilities survey will be available soon. This data underscores that users with low vision are very diverse. The range of vision loss varies greatly, as do the assistive technologies […]
In the spirit of our popular screen reader user surveys, WebAIM has launched two new surveys – a Survey of Users with Low Vision and a Survey of Users with Motor Disabilities. We invite all individuals with these disabilities to complete these brief surveys. The aggregate results of these surveys will be released publicly and […]
We are happy to welcome Dr. Sergio Luján Mora to the WebAIM team. Sergio will be spending six months with WebAIM on sabbatical from the University of Alicante, Spain, where he is a professor of Computer Engineering. Sergio has established himself as one of the foremost experts in web accessibility in Spain and has written […]
