{"id":82385,"date":"2022-08-21T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82385"},"modified":"2022-08-21T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:50:43","slug":"four-items-regarding-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/21\/four-items-regarding-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Four items regarding accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOJ Announces Title II Web Accessibility Regulations Are Coming: What\u2019s It Mean?<\/strong><\/a> — from boia.org<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced at the end of July that it plans to amend Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with new website accessibility regulations. The public may catch a glimpse into clarified standards in April 2023 if the DOJ publishes its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) according to the current timetable.<\/p>\n

How does this impact entities covered by Title II and website accessibility more broadly? Let\u2019s break it down.<\/p>\n

After years of regulatory inaction \u2014 or more accurately, retraction from the previous administration \u2014 the calls for technical accessibility standards under the ADA may finally be answered for at least a subset of websites.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why Do I Need Both Transcripts And Captions for Accessibility?<\/strong><\/a> — from boia.org<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re publishing a video, and you\u2019ve already written a detailed transcript. Do you really need to add closed captions?<\/p>\n

In short, yes. The goal of digital accessibility is to provide the best possible experience for as many users as possible \u2014 not to accommodate a single group of people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Best practices for structuring and designing accessible e-mails<\/strong><\/a> — from blog.usablenet.com<\/p>\n

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We’ve heard that crafting the right e-mail means sending the right message to the right person at the right time, but what if the e-mail is inaccessible to the user? We have broken down the best accessibility practices into 2 categories, e-mail structure and e-mail design, to help you create emails that all users will enjoy.<\/p>\n

Subheadings and Accessibility: What is a “Visual Heading?”\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> — from boia.org<\/p>\n

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Accurate subheadings make your content much more useful for everyone \u2014 but when you\u2019re creating your website, you\u2019ll need to make sure that your headings are both\u00a0visual\u00a0and\u00a0programmatically determinable.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, that\u2019s not as complicated as you might think. A\u00a0visual heading\u00a0is exactly what it sounds like: A subheading that can be identified through visual presentation alone. Subheadings are\u00a0programmatically determinable\u00a0when software (such as web browsers and screen readers) can identify them.<\/p>\n

Below, we\u2019ll discuss how to create subheadings that fulfill the requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the international standards for digital accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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