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WCAG Principles and Conformance
Assistive Technologies3 min read
Digital Accessibility: Screen Readers
With more people relying on screen readers, businesses need to provide compatible websites and applications. But where do you start? Let’s take a look at the most important things to know about screen
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Living with Disability3 min read
How Equality Issues with Disabilities Overlap
There have always been vocal members and advocates of underrepresented groups who have worked to raise awareness of the inequalities faced by their communities. As these voices are acknowledged and aw
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Laws and Regulations4 min read
Are Lenders Discriminating Against Borrowers with Disabilities?
Borrowers with disabilities are protected from lending discrimination by the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, enforced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its Office of Fair
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Disability Rights and History6 min read
How The Fight Against Racism Paved the Way for the ADA
In 2020, the Americans with Disabilities Act celebrated its 30th anniversary. In the past three decades, the country has made significant strides to become more inclusive and accessible for people wit
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Inclusive Design Practices3 min read
Tips to Make Your B2B Site Accessible
With COVID-19 heavily impacting supply chains and distribution channels, e-commerce and online sales are increasingly crucial to an organization's success. As business-to-business (B2B) begins to rely
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Media and Representation5 min read
How the Beauty and Fashion Industries are Embracing Accessibility
For many people, cosmetics and fashion offer a form of self-expression. Unfortunately, these industries largely overlooked and excluded people with disabilities for many years. Thankfully, times are c
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Inclusive Design Practices3 min read
The Risks of Developing Accessibility Goals That Are Unattainable
As an accessibility professional who cares about accessibility and digital inclusion, it can be tempting to aim for absolute perfection when setting goals. But, as with anything, absolute perfection c
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Living with Disability5 min read
Accessibility Barriers to Mental Health Services for Clients with Disabilities
Accessing mental health care is challenging for many reasons, many of which are largely related to systemic poverty and discrimination. People with disabilities contend with these barriers while also
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Assistive Technologies3 min read
What is Linggo?
Linggo is a Canadian-based tech company pioneering Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). AAC is how people communicate without talking—augmentative means adding to a person's speech. Alter
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Inclusive Design Practices4 min read
Why Aren’t More People with Disabilities on Product Development Teams?
When it comes to digital accessibility, history has repeatedly proven that products with optimized accessibility are more straightforward for everyone to operate, not just users with disabilities.
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Inclusive Design Practices4 min read
First Steps to an Accessible E-Commerce Experience
Online purchasing was already becoming the preferred method of shopping for many Americans, and the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic only served to hasten the trend of closing brick-and-mortar shops
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Media and Representation4 min read
Identity First Language
Identity-first language should be a linguistic staple of anyone who interacts with the disability community.
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Inclusive Design Practices4 min read
e-Commerce accessible single-page checkout
The average abandoned cart rate hovers around 70 percent. This means only a little over a quarter of customers will purchase the items they add to their carts. Brands that can decrease their abandonme
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Laws and Regulations4 min read
Serial Litigation: What the Right to Equal Access Should (or Shouldn’t) Look Like
As stated by the Ninth Circuit Court of Northern California in Molski v. Evergreen Dynasty , “for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to yield its promise of equal access for the disabled, it ma
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Inclusive Design Practices6 min read
Best Adaptive Clothing Brands for Every Body, Style, and Budget
It’s no secret that the fashion industry has long neglected the clothing needs of people with disabilities, and what little clothing that was designed to be adaptable to the needs of people with disab
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Living with Disability3 min read
Using Technology to Make Public Transportation More Accessible
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act enforces the standards requiring public transportation systems to provide accessible services but unfortunately, not all people actually have equal acce
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Visual and Media Accessibility3 min read
How Accessible are Dating Apps?
Once a novel concept, online dating has become all but ubiquitous. About 30% of U.S. adults have, at one point, used either a dating app or website. With online platforms central to so many social int
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Assistive Technologies3 min read
Dot Pad Innovation offers tactile graphics
The VersaBraille was the first refreshable Braille display available in the United States released in 1982. This system now sits in a museum as it has become antiquated. Since then a dozen other Brail
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Visual and Media Accessibility3 min read
Using 3-D Printers for Tactile Signage
Braille is a tactile letter alphabet used by people with Blindness or vision difficulties that prevent visual reading. It has provided full access and enjoyment of the written word since 1824 when Lou
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Awareness Days and Observances3 min read
Advocacy and Accessibility in Local Government
The role of government is to keep citizens safe and provide essential services to ensure some type of quality of life − relatively speaking (for example, water, safe paths of travel, roads, etc.). But
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Disability Rights and History3 min read
The Hard Reality of Discrimination Against Parents with Disabilities
One in ten children in the United States has a parent who has been diagnosed with a disability. Despite the numbers, parents with disabilities are at a profound disadvantage regarding child custody pr
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