Target Lawsuit: Settlement Reached
Read more at the WebAIM blog: “Target Lawsuit Settled.” No legal definitions established today, I’m afraid to say. Although this is a victory on behalf of the claimants, who were awarded substantive...
View ArticleJoe Clark’s New Book
“Organizing our Marvellous Neighbours” is now available for purchase! So, Joe Clark — web accessibility guru, now retired from the field — is publishing a new book. The new book is on what could be...
View ArticleWCAG 2 Reaches Recommendation Status
It’s been a long time coming, but as of today the standards of accessibility expressed in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are officially updated. A W3C recommendation is the most final state a...
View ArticleMinimum Color Contrast Ratio Changed in WCAG 2
In the final release of WCAG 2, the acceptable minimum color contrast ratio was changed from 5:1 to 4.5:1. I’ve updated both my color contrast tests — Color Contrast Comparison Tool and the Color...
View ArticleObama’s Web Transparency: not for everybody.
President Barack Obama’s approach to information transparency is admirable. His connection to the public through the major media channels of the digital age: the White House web site, Facebook,...
View ArticleNew Column at Practical eCommerce: Checkout Process
Somehow, I’m never fully satisfied when I’m posting notification about a new column elsewhere and see that my last post was also a notification about a column elsewhere. It becomes clearly evident to...
View ArticleWP to Twitter update: Cli.gs to be shut down
Continuing updates: Cli.gs gets a temporary stay of execution. Keep watching for further news — I may end up making these changes after all, but for now I’ll wait and see. The Cli.gs URL shortening...
View ArticleUnited States disability statistics: Measurement and sources.
On Wednesday of last week, I published an article on disability statistics in Practical eCommerce magazine. Although there’s nothing particularly wrong with the article, I find myself wanting to...
View ArticleTaking over GrayBit.com
Mike Cherim and Jonathan Fenocchi, creators of the GrayBit service for showing a site design converted into grayscale, needed to move on. The time and expense of maintaining GrayBit was too much – and...
View ArticleYour Accessibility Toolbar Doesn’t Help
Mr. Borghi said that he was happy to make his gallery’s website accessible and that he was able to do it with a free widget from WordPress, which added narration, larger fonts and keyboard navigation....
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