The web accessibility field lost a pioneer and powerful advocate when Dick Banks succumbed to cancer this week. Dick was Chief Technology Officer for EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information). More information on his passing is available on the EASI web site. Dick was always an enthusiastic and knowledgeable advocate for accessibility. He had […]
There have been some confusing messages coming out recently regarding changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). WebAIM readers may want additional information so they can provide comments and feedback on an issue that continues to be conspicuously absent from the ADA, namely the Internet. Let me review what has happened in the past […]
Though our partnership with the National Center on Disability and Access to Education, I had the great opportunity to sit on the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC). The committee made recommended changes to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act. During it’s nearly two year […]
As a major step in the W3C guideline development process, WCAG 2.0 has today been advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. This means that the WCAG working group believes the guidelines to be in a stable and usable form that can be used by developers and that, even though feedback is still welcome, the guidelines are […]
The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE), a partner, is currently involved in a project to help educational institutions improve the accessibility of their online content. As part of the project, I recently conducted an evaluation of 100 randomly-selected web pages, each from a different higher education institution website. The pages were […]
