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Keeping Sharks at Bay Part 1: Your Site’s for Everyone, You Hear?

By the end of this three-step process, you’ll have addressed the various issues you face. It’s impossible to instantaneously fix everything about your website that doesn’t meet WCAG standards, but you should move forward on it, and as Wes says, document all the steps you take. In this blog post, I’ll cover what I consider the easiest prong of your compliance efforts, which is to make your site fully accessible to someone who is deaf or hard of hearing.

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Keeping the Sharks at Bay Part 2: Don’t move!

The sharks are circling you, but the letter they sent you didn’t mention anything about auditory challenges, so our last installment of the series left you gasping in the water, and grasping at straws rather than a life preserver. Actually, though, it probably left you standing stock-still, hoping the sharks won’t see you to attack.

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Sharks in the Water 3: Now See Here!

You’re looking a shark (lawyer) in the eye, trying to stare it down, but you’re struck by the irony that seeing is the whole problem in the first place. The lawsuit brought against you says that your website discriminates against blind folks. What do you do?

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Swimming with the Fish: Accessibility Statements

You’ve worked to ensure your site is as accessible as possible; the next step is to add an accessibility statement to tell what you've done. Learn how and why to write one.

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Walk the Plank: Accessible Menus

Our accessibility series to this point has explored some generalities of website accessibility, but now let’s get into some of the nuts and bolts of one of the most common things I see that make sites less accommodating to users of assistive technologies: an inaccessible menu.

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Become Accessible to Get the Disabled Access Tax Credit

Become Accessible to Get the Disabled Access Tax Credit

The government incentivizes businesses to become accessible by offering the Disabled Access Credit to make their sites fully accessible. Find out how you can tap into it!

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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Accessibility Monitoring and Why You Need It

The government incentivizes businesses to become accessible by offering the Disabled Access Credit to make their sites fully accessible. Find out how you can tap into it!

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Big Picture 4: Shining the light on Accessible Commerce and Why You Need to Care About Your Entire Audience

Among all the other things you need to do to get your ecommerce store up and running, it’s most right, profitable, and safe that you also make your site accessible to people with disabilities.

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Bulls Can’t See Red, Can Sharks?

If the contrast ratios throughout your site are high enough, it’ll make it easy for all your visitors to have a great experience and want to come back.

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AIR Accessibility Internet Rally: salesforce, Knowbility

Competition Report: Accessibility Internet Rally

My journey in the Accessible Internet Rally was illuminating on a number of fronts, but it would have been worth it even if I hadn't learned anything. The world needs more accessible sites!

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Reading to Sharks: Basic Screen Reader Testing

Your site attracts blind visitors in addition to sharks and their blind plaintiffs, so you should perform screen reader testing on your site.

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Cognitive Load: Don't Let Overload Sink Your Boat

Web Cognitive Load: Don’t Let Overload Sink Your Boat

Your visitors’ ability to get the most out of your website depends on their being able to shoulder the cognitive load required by your site. Since you can’t affect their cognitive load capacity, the best thing you can do for your site in this area is to make sure the cognitive load you introduce is as light as possible.

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Slippy Sliders: the best place to hide things from your visitors

Carousel sliders are still popular despite years of lackluster effectiveness. It’s best to eliminate them entirely from your site. We’ll tell you what to replace them with, and if absolutely necessary how to make sure they do the least amount of damage possible.

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The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Make Your Website Accessible This Christmas

The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Make Your Website Accessible This Christmas

Give the gift of an accessible website to all your visitors to contribute to the joy and good will of the season.

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Be It Resolved: Why Web Accessibility Should Be Your Top Resolution For The New Year

Be It Resolved: Why Web Accessibility Should Be Your Top Resolution For The New Year

By resolving to make web accessibility your top resolution this year, you'll increase your legal compliance, reach a wider audience, improve user experience, and even benefit your taxes!

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Shadow Puppets for All

Shadow Puppets for All: Accessible Use of Multimedia

Multimedia is a great way to increase the engagement in your site, but don't forget to take the steps to make it as accessible as possible.

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