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Tag: accessibility
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Do Your Digital Properties Suffer from These 5 Obstacles?
Every organization thinks it's unique in what prevents it from achieving digital excellence, when in reality, the issues are common.
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Why 'Accessibility' Isn't an Ugly Word
Many still believe accessibility places too many restrictions on the look and feel of a website, that it ruins the design. This is a myth.
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Web Accessibility Serves Everyone: Here's How to Get Started
For many disabled people, interacting with website elements and accessing information online can range from difficult to outright impossible.
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The Demographic Your Digital Practices Can't Ignore
Companies will have a distinct competitive advantage if they adopt digital policies that address the needs of older consumers.
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We Need to Build Accessibility Into Our Digital Workplaces
As our organizations grow increasingly reliant on digital workplace technology, we need to be sure we are building accessibility into these tools
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Improve User Experience and Address Accessibility with Digital Quality Management
Web accessibility should be a central tenet of any digital initiative, not an afterthought.
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Why Web Accessibility Is Good Policy and Good Business
Is your CMS, website or app accessible to those with visual, hearing, cognitive or motor impairment? I didn't think so. The good news? That particular shortcoming is widespread among online brands, so you’re not alone. But that’s also the bad news. The Dire Need for Accessible Web Experiences One in five Americans lives with a disability, which
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7 Areas You're Probably Neglecting in Your Digital Workplace
The digital workplace — as a concept — gained a foothold in 2016 and looks set to gather momentum in the year ahead. From vendor websites, to consultant briefs, to conferences and significantly in job titles and as names of internal teams — the terminology is cropping up all over.
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Keeping Document Content Accessible
That fact is relatively distinct and discrete -- for example: 1 Dec. 2014 vote on ProjectX John Smith, Yes Kathy Johnson, Yes Steve Nevermore, No The document itself may contain lots of other information -- corporate logos, formatting, trivial details about the meeting room, etc.
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How Accessible is Your Search Application?
It's estimated that one in 10 people has some degree of dyslexia. People with dyslexia have a cognitive disorder which hinders their ability to recognize words. Yet when I brought up the topic of web accessibility with some delegates at the recent J. Boye Aarhus 2014 Conference, I was concerned
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Elcom v8.1: Updated Web Accessibility & Editorial Management Tools
Web content management vendor Elcom has released version 8.1 of its flagship product, the first update to the v8 system that debuted last summer. When Elcom released version 8 last summer, it focused on its social intranet features. This time around, Elcom has focused on Web accessibility and collaboration tools.
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W3C Publishes Draft of Media Accessibility Requirements
Internet standards organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released its first public draft of the “Media Accessibility User Requirements” document, which details what is required to make web-based media like audio and video accessible to individuals with disabilities. Media Accessibility The internet is like a clearinghouse of information.
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Is Your Intranet Legal?
There are a number of legal issues that intranet managers need to be aware of, and some apply to websites and any application with a web browser even if it is not an intranet.
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W3C Project Targets Accessible Web Content Authoring Tools
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (news, site) has been busy making the web a more accessible place. In focus today is a project dubbed the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) -- it aims to help software vendors make better web content authoring and management tools, including
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