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WebAIM’s Hierarchy for Motivating Accessibility Change 26 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
“When you incent, people optimize for reward. When you inspire, people optimize for purpose.” - Michael Norton This quote, tweeted by Joseph O’Connor a couple weeks ago, caused me to consider the th...
10 Easy Accessibility Tips Anyone Can Use 9 May 2013 | 10:13 pm
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). To celebrate and to help promote accessibility, here are 10 simple accessibility tips that most anyone can implement today into their web site’s HTM...
Low Vision Survey Results 30 Apr 2013 | 12:51 am
Results of WebAIM’s recent survey for those with low vision are now available at http://webaim.org/projects/lowvisionsurvey/. A few highlights are found below. The results of our motor disabilities su...
Low Vision and Motor Disability Surveys 13 Feb 2013 | 03:30 am
In the spirit of our popular screen reader user surveys, WebAIM has launched two new surveys – a Survey of Users with Low Vision and a Survey of Users with Motor Disabilities. We invite all individual...
Welcoming Dr. Sergio Luján Mora 12 Jan 2013 | 01:32 am
We are happy to welcome Dr. Sergio Luján Mora to the WebAIM team. Sergio will be spending six months with WebAIM on sabbatical from the University of Alicante, Spain, where he is a professor of Comput...
WebAIM’s 2012 Year in Review 21 Dec 2012 | 02:16 am
As 2012 comes to its conclusion, we at WebAIM wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. A new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on the past year and look forward to the future. WebAIM c...
Accessibility Improvements in Adobe Acrobat XI 30 Nov 2012 | 11:20 pm
Our article on Abode Acrobat accessibility has recently been updated to include accessibility improvements made in Acrobat XI, the newest version of Acrobat Professional. While I often experience my f...
WAVE5 Beta Launch 4 Oct 2012 | 05:08 am
We’re very excited to announce the launch of the newly updated beta version of WAVE version 5. Please check it out at http://five.wave.webaim.org/. We will be participating in a free webinar on Thursd...
Styles for Checking Color Reliance 1 Sep 2012 | 01:36 am
There are two primary accessibility issues that can be introduced by using color in web pages. First, you must ensure that there is sufficient contrast between foreground and background colors. Second...
Four Keys to System-wide Web Accessibility 29 Jun 2012 | 12:49 am
The main focus of the GOALS project (a partner of WebAIM) is to help institutions of higher education develop a system-wide approach to web accessibility. At the beginning of the GOALS project, we ana...
