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Digital Accessibility Jobs, June 2020

Many more tremendous opportunities in the field of digital accessibility. Software Development Engineer, accessibility – Alexa shopping, at Amazon in California. Web Accessibility Technical Specialist at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA. Senior Interaction Designer, Accessibility at Google in CA/TX/MA. Senior Accessibility Designer at CVS in Boston, MA. Accessibility Support Associate at Integra Software Services in […]

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Accessibility Resources for Challenging Times—a letter from Lainey Feingold

This is a guest post; a slightly modified letter from Lainey Feingold. Thank you Lainey! Dear Web, I hope this message finds you, your families and colleagues, and all those you love safe and as well as possible during these challenging times, the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. I write to share some upcoming accessibility learning opportunities […]

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The WebAIM Million—Updated

The WebAIM Million report, an accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages, has been recently updated. Here’s a summary of the update from WebAIM. Sadly, per the report data, the state of web access hasn’t improved much, and has actually worsened overall. The number of errors increased 2.1% between February 2019 and February 2020. […]

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Digital Accessibility Roundup February 2020

So many great articles around digital accessibility lately! Here are some (with author and quote/summary) which I thought were very useful. Link Targets and 3.2.5 by Adrian Roselli @aadrian. “Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so […]

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Passing of Joseph O’Connor

I’m deeply saddened to hear that Joseph O’Connor, tremendous accessibility advocate, recently died. His passing was announced on his personal website; please read Remembering Joseph O’Connor (1953 – 2020). Joseph was highly loved and respected in the accessibility community and will be sorely missed. Joseph suffered from chronic illness and experienced serious pain especially over […]