Summary of an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages This week being the syzygy of accessibility conferences, WebAIM took the opportunity to publish its accessibility analysis of the top one million web pages consisting of home pages from 730 unique top-level domains, .com (521,316), .org…
The “perilous pitfalls” of Accessibility Maturity
Several people pointed me to an article titled “How to Avoid the 24 Perilous Pitfalls of UX Maturity” from Human Factors International. There are a lot of parallels between this article and accessibility maturity with a few deviations. This article is…
How to Stop People from Filing Repeat ADA Lawsuits
I have a confession to make. I am a “serial filer” Last year, the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a change to its case-processing manual which encouraged investigators to dismiss complaints without investigation if multiple complaints had come from the…
Accessibility New Year’s Resolutions — The Deadline for Implementing WCAG 2.1
Procrastination is firmly embedded in human nature. And the lack of a deadline makes it easier to procrastinate. Step 1: You tell someone they have to do something they may not really want to do Step 2: They *always* ask…
This week in accessibility: Robles v. Domino’s
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals came out with a ruling in Robles v. Domino’son January 15th, 2019. This case was yet another standard accessibility class action lawsuit, with a twist. What happened? The Central District of California sided with Domino’s…
Designing Toast Messages for Accessibility
A toast is a non-modal dialog that appears and disappears in the span of a few seconds. It may also optionally have a small close “X”. Typically, toast messages display one or two-line non-critical messages that do not require user…