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Being minimally accessible is a given for today’s websites. But meeting all WCAG criteria simply ensures users are not blocked from accessing content. As UX designers, we aim for a much higher standard — to delight all users and ease their journey through an experience toward a goal. We don’t just want an avoidance of […]
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 […]
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 […]