The state of “details” in 2024

The “details” element is HTML’s most inherently interactive element, even before you mix in CSS and JavaScript. But browser and assistive tech support have been incomplete and inconsistent over the years. How well do they handle `details` these days, and can you use this element to produce useful, accessible UIs? Presenter Greg Gibson — Red Hat […]

From complaint to compliance: Highland Community College’s journey to website accessibility

In early 2022, Highland Community College was notified by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that the Department of Education had received a complaint about the community college’s website lacking the necessary accessibility features to make it usable by people with disabilities. Highland reached an agreement with OCR in April 2022 to make its website […]

Sa11y & Editoria11y: Straightforward content accessibility at scale

We’ve seen your accessibility programs: trainings, audits, browser plugins, crawlers, dashboards, spreadsheets…still getting complaints, re-audits, re-trainings… and all the while, your content creators are expressing nervousness (“I just don’t know if it is accessible”), competing priorities (“oh right…I’m supposed to use your dashboard…”) and burnout (“I can’t deal with this right now; we’ll work on […]