What are Accessibility Overlays? Third-party plugins offer a quick fix to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) by inserting one line of code into your website for a monthly fee. They provide a promise to protect your website from legal actions. However, this quick fix is inevitably costly and ineffective (NBCNews). Overlay Fact Sheet has signatures …
Color-Blind Color blindness is a visual impairment that affects around 8% of all men and 0.5% of all women (Colour Blind Awareness). There are three main types of color blindness, red-green, blue-yellow, and complete color blindness. Each of these has its subcategories of severity. According to the American Optometric Association, deficiencies in cone genes are …
ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requires that all public businesses follow their guidelines. All businesses require wheelchair accessibility, which is necessary due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. However, today companies should be concerned with their online presence, relating to these ADA guidelines. So how does this law apply here? Since this …
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