An Accenture survey found that the vast majority of employees with disabilities don’t feel their workplace culture is fully committed to helping them thrive and succeed. This article offers five steps that organizations can take to make such disabilities feel so safe and included that they will be willing to disclose their conditions. And that’s important: The research found that employees who do disclose their disability at work are 30% more engaged — in terms of career satisfaction and aspirations, confidence, and a sense of belonging — than those who don’t.

The W3C Accessibility Maturity Model is a guide for organizations to evaluate and improve their business processes to produce digital products that are accessible to people with disabilities. Use of the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model will provide organizations informative guidance (guidance that is not normative and does not set requirements) on improving accessibility policies, processes, and outcomes.

Accessibility is often overlooked or bolted on to the end of a project from the experiences in my career in web development and design. The case for accessibility is something we as people who create and build things for the web should be implementing and advocating for from the inception of a project to the release or handoff and beyond.

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Use LCH color space to come up with predictable and accessible color palettes

By Kelly Short, Master’s in Deaf Education | Updated October 2021 The digital world is far from 100% accessible, even with tools such as screen readers and keyboard-only navigation. Someone who has to give up privacy or rely on another person’s help is at higher risk of exploitation and theft. Digital security issues are poised … Continued

What is accessible technology? Explore how IT managers can use innovative technology to improve user experience and make the world a more equitable place.

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This toolkit provides information and resources on how a company’s disability-focused affinity group can promote disability inclusion through the employment life cycle and can enable employees with disabilities to bring their whole selves to work. The founding members of the Disability:IN ERG/BRG Leadership Committee created the toolkit.

Create accessible color pairings using your brand colors.

The INCLUSIVE ADDIE model was created to extend the popularity of the ADDIE model and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in instructional

There’s a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It’s important to accommodate users with disabilities, but there are many myths to color contrast accessibility being perpetuated by misinformed people. They often parrot these myths to discredit a design, without understanding in which situations a color contrast standard applies. Not […]

Let’s talk about making your site’s external links open in a new tab. First we’ll consider if this is even a good idea, then we’ll look at ways to improve the...

A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect people with different visual impairments.

The concept of accessibility has been around for more than twenty years, yet it’s only recently that more companies have started including it in their development efforts. Developers and testers are recognizing the advantages of incorporating accessibility techniques into their processes. Here are some of these methods specific to agile software development, including a handy checklist.

A recent conversation on the importance of process in the creation of accessible applications gave me the nudge to put this article…

A free resource hub for marketers, communication professionals, and digital creators who want to learn how to make accessible social media content.

Over the past few years JavaScript frameworks have become the norm for developing new web...

A question often seen in the accessibility space is "I am using this framework, how do I know if it...

Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers should practice it, too.

Although the business case for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is stronger than ever, many companies’ progress has stalled. A systematic approach and bold action can help.

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Let's bust the myth that automated accessibility testing will slow down the testing process, and share some best practices along the way!