Most professional remediators enter the field because they care passionately about accessibility and many have a personal connection to making information available to everyone.  You are attentive to detail and knowledgeable about WCAG and 508 guidelines. You also want to produce as many fully accessible documents as possible in the least amount of time – because we all have to earn a living and time is money.  There are a myriad of tools available to you to correct accessibility issues… Continue Reading Evaluating Tools for Professional PDF Remediators

Basis for Accessibility Laws The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in any state in the US. However, ADA discrimination laws do not clearly define what discrimination looks like when applied to websites, and lawmakers have not established clear laws for states to follow regarding website accessibility.  Existing legislation is most commonly on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This set of guidelines is widely accepted by… Continue Reading State Accessibility Laws: An Overview

In 2016, Nielson reported that as many as 35% of households report at least one person with a disability and 8% of those report a vision loss.  As of this year, nearly 20% of the current US population has a disability.  People with genetic disabilities are not the only part of that group. Our generation is aging, and as we age, the number of people with age-related disabilities is growing.  The current older population, unlike previous generations, is tech savvy-… Continue Reading Equidox’s Accessibility Mission

Why Validate? Remediating documents to be compatible with assistive technology is a large part of making content accessible.   Documents can be extremely complex, containing elements such as tables, nested lists, infographics including pie charts and graphs, links, footnotes, and may have creative formatting and placement of these elements. Reading order is also an important component of remediation.   Once remediation is completed, however, the content must be validated in order to ensure that all errors have been corrected and that… Continue Reading Validation – A Key Step to Accessibility

Gaming is a vast and ever-evolving market. The competition is fierce.  Video games are available on many platforms: mobile, console, PC and interactive media.  And everyone wants to play. Even those who might never have played a console or PC game have probably been tempted by the games available on their smartphone or tablet. But not everyone can play.  Many games are completely or partially inaccessible to people with disabilities.  If the game has audio clues, or too much sound… Continue Reading Accessible Gaming – Everyone Wants to Play

The private sector is being targeted by web accessibility lawsuits with increasingly frequency, and the finance and banking industry is not immune. The number of claims against banking institutions has risen significantly over the past few years. Almost 20% of the population is disabled, so if your website is not accessible to everyone you could be losing business to organizations who are taking all of their potential clients into consideration as well as putting yourself at risk for accessibility litigation.… Continue Reading Digital Accessibility in Banking

If you’ve finally started the journey to making your website accessible, good for you! Now as many as 20% more people will be able to take advantage of the goods and services offered on your website. While you may have updated the text, images, and navigation functions on your most important web pages, you may not have gotten around to the pages and pages of backlogged or archived PDF documents that are hiding under easily forgotten, seldom-used tabs. Maybe your… Continue Reading PDF Remediation: In-House or Outsource?

Digital accessibility is not a destination to be reached but an ongoing process across a number of industries and fields. Since the beginning of the year, a number of new rules, lawsuits, and initiatives have popped up in the world of digital accessibility, moving the industry closer to the goal of reaching everyone. Thousands of Fortune 100 Companies’ URLs Aren’t Accessible http://www.theprogressnews.com/business/national/crownpeak-new-research-reveals-alarming-scale-of-wcag-accessibility-issues/article_dcfdfaa7-88af-59df-8c93-5c5b2a693602.html Fortune 100 companies are good at a lot of things when it comes to business- they know how… Continue Reading Equidox Accessibility Pulse

More and more we are developing tools to automate large, complex processes and save us time and money. This includes accessibility testing.  But there are still limits to what AI can do for us. There are hundreds of automated tools on the market which promise to optimize your website for accessibility: some are free browser plugins that anyone can use, others are full-scale project management platforms which stretch into the tens of thousands of dollars. But despite these tools, the… Continue Reading Man Versus Machine – AI Can’t Work Alone