More News on the Target Accessibility Lawsuit
For a major issue in accessibility, I have to say that this really hasn’t seen much press. Granted, major lawsuits tend to move slowly — glacially, you might say. However, given the fact that the last...
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Google Toolbar ties to the Windows Accessibility API
Quietly released on the Saturday before Christmas, (what, are they trying to hide this news?) Google announced that their latest Toolbar release supports the Windows Accessibility API. This is...
View ArticleTarget 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...
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Joe 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...
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Obama’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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