Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a day for raising awareness around digital accessibility and the importance of considering it in software development. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org) help determine whether your website meets the criteria for accessibility, which may be a legal requirement as well.
More people seem to be learning about web accessibility as of late. Whatever the motivation, be it written or unwritten legal requirements, expanding markets and/or profits, or human empathy; making websites more accessible to people with disabilities is ultimately the right thing to do. When it comes to accessibility, prospects and clients alike ask about 508 compliance. But does Section 508 go far enough? Or should we be doing more?
Reader's Corner No. 106: Surprising Internet Facts, Fourth Circuit Rulings on Web Accessibility, and Dockerfile Best Practices
This week's Reader's Corner contains a collection of articles, ranging from fun to informative. Did you know that the most commonly searched question beginning with "What is" in 2013 was "What is twerking?", that and other fun facts are available for you to read in Madelyn's submission. If you want to veer towards the educational side, there are new rulings on website accessibility that may surprise you. Or, If coding is your M.O. then check out Jay's submission for an intro to Dockerfile.
Reader's Corner No. 100: 10 lists of 10 things! Including Tech Pranks, Web Design Trends, Common UI Mistakes, and More!
For our 100th Reader's Corner edition we are bringing you guys TEN top 10 articles a.k.a 100 new things for you to learn!
Reader's Corner No. 99: The World's Most Murderous Malware, Designing a Motion-Reduced Variant of your Site, and The Last Blockbuster on Earth
Another great Reader's Corner, this edition featuring recent advances in malware, new accessibility solutions for motion-sickness prone web users, and a very neat update from the owner of the very last Blockbuster on earth.
Reader's Corner No. 90: Beyonce.com Lawsuit Reminds Us How Shitty the Web Is for the Visually Impaired, iPad Pro as a Main Computer, and How Doom Fire was Done
See why accessibility has gone mainstream thanks to Beyonce Knowles, one argument for using an iPad pro as your main computer and learn how the fire feature from the game "Doom" was developed.
While many organizations are interested in the concept of having an accessible website, they often do not understand the holistic nature of creating and maintaining an accessible website. In our experience, accessibility must be a team effort between between a web team and the content creators, and it can't stop once an accessible website launches.