Whose responsibility is it anyway? Creating an accessibility education program for employees

From procurement to deployment, accessibility has often been seen as someone in IT or communication’s wheelhouse. Without proper decentralization, no organization will successfully overcome ingrained processes which impede full accessibility compliance. Enter the employee accessibility education program! Having an easy-to-access accessibility wiki has enabled me to slowly decentralize accessibility from one person’s job to many. […]

Hacking browser validation: Take control of form error handling without third-party libraries

HTML5 brought many enhancements to web forms, including semantic field types (like date, time, number, email and URL) and a collection of attributes to add constraints to fields, such as required, min and max. Using these features enables automatic validation in modern browsers that even works without JavaScript. But this built-in validation is limited: we […]

Watering the lawn: Tips for building a grass-roots Digital Accessibility Coalition

When digital accessibility is a priority, but budgets are in a crunch, it’s time to get creative. With the recent establishment of a campus Information Communications Technology Accessibility Policy, the University of Central Oklahoma elevated the importance of digital accessibility. The leadership team at the Center for eLearning and Connected Environments saw this as an […]