Is Your Website Section 508 Compliant? Imagine this… You manage a website for a company. Someone from Legal approaches you with a question, “Is the company’s website Section 508 compliant”? How would you respond? Your first reaction might be to…
Accessibility and WordPress Gutenberg
What is WordPress Project Gutenberg? Gutenberg is more than an editor. While the editor is the focus right now, the project will ultimately impact the entire publishing experience including customization (the next focus area). Gutenberg looks at the editor as…
January accessibility update
As we begin a new year, we thought it summarize some recent information regarding web accessibility. As a web professional, one should already know that making your pages accessible helps your search engine ranking and much more. As an organization,…
What’s happening with WCAG
I had the opportunity to speak with Glenda Sims (Deque) about all the activities happening with WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) these days. In this 5 minute overview, she discusses those aspects important to web professionals everywhere. The full 22…
Are we relying too much on JavaScript?
As you know, we are big proponents of accessibility. We believe that content should be available to anyone at any time on any device. As 2016 draws to a close, it has become apparent that many web pages rely heavily…
Why web accessibility matters now more than ever
If you design or develop websites for a living, more than likely you’ve heard about the importance of web sites which are accessible and usable for everyone. So, what’s new and newsworthy today and why should you care? Accessibility has…
Web Accessibility 101
By Mark DuBois Director of Education, WebProfessionals.org One, often overlooked, aspect of web design is to make your pages accessible. Besides being the right thing to do, this helps with page rank in search engines (since bots are blind). However,…
Web Accessibility – A Look back and into the Future
Web Accessibility – A Look back and into the Future: Interview with Debi Orton, IT Manager New York State Government In this three minute interview with Debi Orton, Manager of IT at New York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations,…
Adobe Flash Platform, Web Standards Interview: Jeremy Schultz, Independent Web Designer
Last week WOW participated in the Adobe MAX 2009 conference that took place in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The goal for WOW’s participation was to report to WOW members and to the subscribers of this podcast the goings on, where…
Web Acessibility: Interview with Victor Tsaran Senior Accessibility Program Manager at Yahoo
Today’s podcast is a continuation of WOW’s media coverage of the Web Accessibilty Conference that took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign campus last week. For today’s podcast, I’m on the phone with Victor Tsaran Senior Accessibility Program…