The results from our most recent screen reader user survey are now available at http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/. There were 1782 valid responses, making this the most popular survey thus far. We hope the data is informative and will help promote more accessible web development. A few items of note: JAWS is still the primary screen reader, but […]
This past month WebAIM staff had an opportunity to attend CSUN 2012. As always, CSUN was a great opportunity to see what others are doing, share what we’ve been up to, and connect with good friends in the accessibility world. Prior to the conference, the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) hosted an all-day meeting to […]
Several months ago I decided to spend some time using a few common, but often overlooked, assistive technologies and then report on my experiences and insights. The first two posts of this series presented my recommendations on designing for users of ZoomText and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. As the final part of this series, I will cover […]
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation (code for “finalized specification”) in December 2008. I am proud to have my name listed as a contributor to WCAG 2.0. All of WebAIM’s current clients are working toward WCAG conformance. None of them are seriously considering only the antiquated Section 508, the update of […]
Karl Groves recently published automated web accessibility test data for many of the Alexa Top 100 web sites. The results paint a rather stark picture of web accessibility. We agree with Karl’s suggestion that while automated testing is not a direct indicator of true accessibility issues, “poor performance in automated testing is strongly correlated with […]
