Digital Accessibility News

The Justice Department sent to the Federal Register for publication a notice of proposed rulemaking under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA that aims to improve web and mobile applications apps access for people with disabilities and clarify how public entities primarily state and local governments can meet their existing ADA obligations as many of their activities shift online Across the United...

The Department of Justice DOJ is proposing a new rule aimed at improving access to state and local public services online for people with disabilities the White House announced Tuesday The proposed rule would establish technical standards like captioning videos adding text descriptions to images and making navigation more accessible for state and local governments web and mobile app based services like voter registration tax...

Yamaha Corporation of America operates a website that is not fully accessible to blind and visually impaired visitors in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York City law a class action lawsuit alleges The Yamaha class action lawsuit notes that there are about 8 1 million visually impaired Americans including 2 million blind Americans according to the 2020 U S Census Bureau...

This month Seattle based Amazon has announced updates to a few accessibility features for the industry s doyenne of digital assistants in Alexa The updates encompass three features Tap to Alexa Alexa Captions and the new Automatic Speech Recognition technology With Tap to Alexa it s now possible to use one s voice to enable the functionality by asking Alexa enable Tap to Alexa As...

A push is underway to get employees back into the office The Commonwealth Bank kick started this conversation recently with reports the organisation is requiring staff to work at least half the week on site A range of organisations are directing employees to return to the office These reportedly include Amazon General Motors Meta and Disney But although COVID lockdowns have ended many employees want...

When Daniel Belquer was first asked to join a team to make a better live music experience for deaf and hard of hearing people he was struck by how they had developed work arounds to enjoy concerts What they were doing at the time was holding balloons to feel the vibrations through their fingers or go barefoot and flip the speakers facing the floor Belquer...

Dollar General violated the law by making one of its websites inaccessible to Americans who are blind or visually impaired a new class action lawsuit alleges Plaintiff Mary Conner filed the class action lawsuit against Dollar General Corporation and Dolgencorp LLC on July 10 in a North Carolina federal court alleging violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act ADA Conner is a visually impaired and...

Learning Braille took a lot of persistence and perseverance though it also felt natural to now 22 year old Mason Fessenden of Dana Point When Mason was born premature and completely blind his mother Martha Fessenden said she was told he would never be able to learn Braille We were told he was never going to talk he was going to have cerebral palsy Martha...

On the Cutting EDge podcast Terrill Thompson the manager of the University of Washington s IT Accessibility team says that universities need to establish a culture that emphasizes the importance of web accessibility while they wait for stronger standards to arrive I don t consider accessibility an outcome I consider it more of a process that we re actively trying to build a culture of...

This is an article about a lawsuit filed by AudioEye a multi million dollar accessibility company against Adrian Roselli a long time leader in the global digital accessibility community Adrian has been a vocal critic as have I against one line of code software that claims to make websites accessible AudioEye sells licenses an overlay The company has sued Adrian to stop him from expressing...

Whether using desktop software to solve enterprise problems or scrolling through your social media feed in the supermarket checkout line online connectivity is ubiquitous In less than two decades internet users grew from just 0 4 of the global population to 69 in 2022 In the U S 85 of Americans say they go online daily while more than one third report being online almost...

Plaintiff Frank Senior a legally blind man claims Garmin has not designed its website so that it is fully compatible with screen reading software used by individuals who are blind or visually impaired to access the internet Senior argues Garmin is ultimately depriving individuals who are blind or visually impaired from the benefits of its online goods contents and services in an alleged violation of...