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Digital Accessibility Jobs, February 2019

Wow, so many great opportunities! IT Accessibility Coordinator at Portland State University in Portland, OR. Head of Digital Accessibility at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. Senior Accessibility Consultant at Target in Minneapolis, MN. Principal Program Manager (on the accessibility developer tools and services team) at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Senior Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems […]

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Digital Accessibility Jobs, summer 2018

Lots of terrific opportunities! Digital Accessibility Analyst at LC Industries in Durham, NC. Product Developer – JavaScript at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI. E-Learning and ADA Compliance Specialist at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Senior Software Engineer – Accessibility at Salesforce in Bellevue, WA preferred (2 other cities listed). Sr. Accessibility Analyst at Visa in Austin, TX. […]

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WCAG 2.1 Now A W3C Recommendation

On 5 June 2018, WCAG 2.1 was published with a Recommendation status, which means it’s stable and ready for implementation. The new guidelines help fill gaps in WCAG 2.0 particularly in the areas of mobile, low vision, and cognitive disabilities. The new guidelines are backwards compatible with 2.0 as the official W3C announcement by Andrew Kirkpatrick and Michael Cooper explains: […]

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The Accessibility Interpretation Problem

Some aspects of digital accessibility can be straight-forward. But many are complex and can be subjective, especially when interpreting WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The following tweet is humorous because there’s a strong ring of truth to it—if you ask 10 accessibility specialists you will get 20 different answers. https://twitter.com/arigaud_ca/status/649218118422802432 Inconsistency in accessibility reporting can be a […]

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Force Focus Tools

When testing web accessibility, missing visual focus indicators is a “violation” of 2.4.7 Focus Visible. And when it fails, it also makes other checkpoints difficult to test (for sighted testers) such as focus order. To get around this problem, here are a few tools to help force a visual indication of keyboard focus. Keep in […]