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Update on the ADA

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 […]

WebAIM hosting TEITAC content

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 […]

WCAG 2.0 advances to Candidate Recommendation

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 […]

508 and Higher Ed.

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 […]

Donate to John Slatin Fund, get an evaluation

WebAIM has volunteered time to the John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project. John Slatin, who passed away last month after a prolonged battle with leukemia, was a powerful advocate for web accessibility and one of the pioneers in this field. The John Slatin Fund was established to help John’s beloved Anna offset the medical expenses incurred […]