Posts Tagged“Accessibility”

Important Things You Need To Know About A Website Accessibility Overlay

The accessibility overlay is an addition to your website that provides users with disabilities web access features. There are two types of overlays. The first is the global web accessibility overlay, and the second is a site-specific one. A global web accessibility overlay basically serves as a reminder for everyone on your website to review their website pages, including images, text or videos, all links, and any functions or plugins they may be using. On the other hand, a site-specific overlay serves as a reminder only to those who have launched it on particular sections of their websites. This can…

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Making Websites ADA Compliant is Easy with accessiBe

People with disabilities may lack one or more of the five senses that most of you take for granted. For example, people who are blind don’t have a sense of vision, so they can’t see text or anything else on a screen. People who are deaf may not have the sense of hearing, so they can’t hear music or spoken words. In addition, some people with disabilities may be paralyzed and unable to use a mouse, keyboard, touchscreen, or touchpad, so those controls must also be accessible. Every day more than one billion people worldwide go online using a multitude…

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3 Reasons Why Your Businesses Needs to Pay Attention to Accessibility – A Guide from accessiBe

The ADA guidelines have been put in place to make the world, and the web, more accessible to people suffering from disabilities. Recent accessibility cases, like the Domino’s case for instance, shed light on the importance of accessibility in web design. But, while it’s important to stay compliant so you can avoid lawsuits, there are many benefits to being more accessible. accessiBe has an informative guide on why businesses need to pay attention to accessibility. Let’s take a closer look at what it had to say. Legal Aspect  Physical accessibility was mandated by law in 1990 and it now extends…

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