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What an incredible honor and privilege to live in the greatest country in the world, the United States. While celebrating

Many businesses and government agencies are now leveraging AI to build websites, applications, and transform how they provide services to

Open data is only open if everyone can use it. Here is how to build portals that work for all

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Here's a big digital accessibility secret. Making a product accessible is the easy part. Keeping it accessible is the hard

When the Department of Justice issued the 2024 final rule applying WCAG 2.1 Level AA to digital content of state

Local governments covered by ADA Title II are staring down a compliance challenge that most have only begun to quantify:

By the time this article is published, the Title II extension under the ADA will be official.The federal compliance deadline

True story: I discovered a new website published by a Fortune 200 employer while listening to the radio during my

The print-sign-scan workflow is an accessibility nightmare when the end document needs to be accessible. Here’s what you need to

Every week, city clerks, municipal staff, and planning departments across the country receive documents from engineering firms, architects, contractors, and

Somewhere in your organization, there is a folder, filing cabinet, or shared drive full of PDFs, scanned forms, legacy web

“Redlining” is the practice of marking up a document to show proposed changes. Typically, redlining uses strikethrough text to indicate

A practical guide to a dangerously misunderstood provision in the DOJ's 2024 digital accessibility ruleThe New Rule and Why the

TL;DR: State and local government agencies need to rethink their reliance on handwritten paper forms. Making those forms accessible to

To be compliant with the new ADA Title II rules effective April 24, 2026, municipalities and state governments must ensure

Stop letting complex tables make your PDFs fail accessibility audits!If you’ve spent hours and hours on a PDF table and

To achieve compliance with the new Title II regulations under the ADA, all small text, large text, and designs in

Did you know unlabeled links in your PDFs violate the new Title II regulations under the ADA?Many of our government

To achieve compliance with the new Title II regulations under the ADA, all images in a PDF must include descriptive

Many governments, municipalities, and universities produce a lot of PDFs...from meeting minutes to transcripts, court documents, downloadable materials, and everything

Headings make your PDFs more accessible, navigable, and usable by everyone. It’s important for city, county and state government agencies

Government agencies and municipalities are overwhelmed by the volume and complexity of achieving ADA compliance for all of their websites,

If you’ve been struggling with PDF accessibility, you can stop searching and briefly thank the AI and Google search gods.

April 24, 2027, is the deadline for compliance with the new ADA rules for digital accessibility for government agencies with 50,000

If you’ve ever struggled to find steady, meaningful work as a blind or visually impaired professional, you’re not alone. Many

In May 2025, the Department of Energy quietly proposed removing accessibility requirements under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. This

On June 12, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in the case of A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools,

Accessible PDF forms don’t start and stop with checkboxes and tables.In Part 1 of our Accessible PDF Series, we showed

PDF accessibility shouldn’t feel this hard but here we are. Adobe doesn’t make it easy, and with the DOJ’s new

You’ve found this article on accessible tables with form fields for PDFs using Adobe Pro because, well, Adobe made this

A look at how the House’s Medicaid cuts could reshape the future of disability services and civil rights across the

The Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act (H.R. 3417) has been reintroduced in the House. This bipartisan legislation aims to

Section 504 and the Right to Accessible Education In previous posts, we explored the legal arguments for the attack on

Introduction to Hidden Accessibility Trade-offsFor many people, accessibility and inclusion can feel daunting. The list of requirements seems overwhelming, and

The Struggle of Inaccessible Signatures for Blind Users It's the end of a long workday, and I've arrived at the

Overview Many blind children experience signs of ADHD or autism that go unnoticed, mislabeled, or misunderstood. In this piece, I

SSI Marriage Penalty 2025: How "I Do" Can Cost Disabled Couples BenefitsThis blog highlights three key points: The financial disadvantage

Overview - Your Path to Becoming a Certified Accessibility Tester Below is the program overview, one case study, insight on

Overview: The SSDI benefits cliff creates significant barriers to employment for people with disabilities, often trapping them in a cycle

Overview Imagine losing the support that enables you to build a career. That's the reality facing millions of disabled Americans

Overview:Disabled parents face systemic discrimination in child custody cases, despite ADA protections.Unjust family separations are driven by family court bias

Overview of Legal Arguments to Dismantle Section 504 17 states filed lawsuits against Section 504 claiming unconstitutionality. The claim centers on gender

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Introduction to ADA Compliance: Understanding Your Legal Responsibilities as an EmployerThis article is designed to help you assess, analyze, and

The DIY Digital Accessibility Compliance Guide was created to help you improve your brand and customer loyalty, Search Engine Optimization,

Leveraging ADA compliance to broaden reach and Increase SalesPassion. Partnership. Persistent Pursuit of Excellence. These driving forces are behind VB

Why Digital Accessibility Matters Have you ever encountered a website that made you feel excluded due to inaccessible content? Unfortunately,

Creating accessible Word documents ensures that all users, including those with disabilities, can access and understand your content.Additionally, creating accessible

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Despite unemployment rates at multi-decade lows, disabled job seekers are struggling to get a single job interview, let alone land

Both automated digital accessibility testing tools and accessibility overlays, also known as accessibility widgets, play a role in advancing digital

Companies who do not invest in people lose. They lose across organizational retention, productivity, and revenue… They lose across employee engagement,

The outcomes of your disability workplace reporting framework depend on the quality of the questions you ask your employees.

Information and knowledge are powerful. But what if you can’t access it even when protected by law?A new bill was

This is Part 2 in a series on how to achieve digital accessibility compliance. For “The Proven Path To Digital

Disability Workplace Reporting IntroductionThis guide is designed to support HR leaders looking to improve disability employment programs, specifically focusing on

Knowledge Versus Skill-Based Corporate Training and Certification ProgramsExpectations for digital accessibility and disability inclusion have never been higher. These are

California Suing Digital Design Agencies, Integrators, and Vendors for Inaccessible Websites?California law AB 1757 (C. Garcia, Stats. 2022, ch. 341),

Check out our video for this blog!The pandemic taught us a lot of things about ourselves. What we value culturally,

It’s a little windy and a little chilly. I hate the wind. It might rain too. That’s when you really

ContentsI’ll Take Unconscious Bias and Ableism for One Thousand.What Does Discrimination, Segregation, and Ableism Every Day Look Like?Who Really Pays

If you are not born blind, losing sight is incredibly difficult.Sight is so precious, valuable, and intrinsically embedded into everything

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Recruiting disabled employees is often the first step a company takes when it wants to improve disability diversity and inclusion.Fueled