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Default accessible
where businesses, products, schools, government, everything is designed and built from Day One to be accessible to everyone.
Expansively inclusive
where EVERYONE is welcomed to work, buy, lead, organize, teach, learn… every form of participation regardless of ability or status – all abilities, all disabilities.
The End of Transportation Accessibility?
It was happening even before the pandemic struck. I couldn’t reliably get a wheelchair cab. It was hard to find an accessible restroom (one that fits my wheelchair and the door will still close). Public transit wasn’t up to snuff. My wheelchair was broken during airplane travel. Accessibility—full and real accessibility—for people with disabilities was…
It’s time for accessible cabs in our nation’s capital
As a wheelchair user living in Washington, DC, I have found accessible taxi service highly unreliable for decades. I have filed too many complaints to count. I participated in mediation after charging a taxi company with discrimination, resulting only in empty promises for improving service with no actual actions to do so. I joined the…
Designing Accessible Classroom Communities on Discord
Secondary and higher education teachers have been recipe-swapping tips, strategies and postmortem classroom analyses online way before COVID gained precedence in our collective imaginary, but the pandemic has created a veritable linkstorm of teaching advice available through personal blogs, research portals and collective activism groups. Not all of this advice was good advice. And while…
Taco Tech Tuesday – phone accessibility
Learn about built-in accessible features on the iPhone. (…more) Originally published as Taco Tech Tuesday – phone accessibility at Texas Center for Disability Studies
Tax incentives for accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act
In the US, businesses can take advantage of two tax incentives available to help cover costs of making access improvements for customers with disabilities: • A tax credit for small businesses who remove access barriers from their facilities, provide accessible services, or take other steps to improve accessibility for customers with disabilities • A tax…
Voting Accessibility
More than 35 million Americans with disabilities are eligible to vote in the United States. This accounts for a broad range of disabilities, including mobility, communicative, physical and cognitive impairments. The EAC has a strong commitment to working with both election officials and voters with disabilities to ensure that the election process, polling places and…
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and…
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is developed through the W3C process in cooperation with individuals and organizations around the world, with a goal of providing a single shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally. The WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to…
Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 generally requires polling places across the United States to be physically accessible to people with disabilities for federal elections. Where no accessible location is available to serve as a polling place, a political subdivision must provide an alternate means of casting a ballot on…
Will the Twitter Takeover lead to Muzzling of the Disabled?
Since Elon Musk’s takeover on November 4, Twitter has been constantly in the news: Firing around 3700 people within the first week in the name of cost-cutting. $8-a-month fee to get the verified blue tick status. Scammers popped up soon after the announcement of the Blue subscription plan. It’s been chaotic, in short. Both the…