Blogs to Follow
- 100 Days of A11y – This blog originated from my journey to learn web accessibility in-depth by means of taking IAAP’s Web Accessibility Specialist certification exam in May 2019. Since then I’ve added in my journey to earn the Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies certification. My hope is that you will learn from my journey, and maybe even start your own journey in making the web more accessible for all.
- 24 Accessibility – 24 Accessibility is a series of articles on all subjects related to digital accessibility. During the first 24 days in the month of December, we offer a daily dose of accessibility wisdom and insight from a wide array of knowledge experts throughout the world.
- Accessible Web Design (Joe Dolson) – You may have come here because you were looking for web site accessibility information or for WordPress plug-ins. In either case, you’re probably in the right place. I’ve been doing web development and consulting with a focus on accessibility since 2004, when I founded my business. As with everything, the focus of my work has drifted back and forth over the years – but accessibility has remained a constant element.
- A11y Project Blog List – Accessibility can be a complex and difficult topic. The Accessibility Project understands this and wants to help make it easier to implement on the web.
- A11y Rules – There is a lot of information about how to make the web accessible. There isn’t so much information about the people working to make the web accessible. Over the years that I’ve been involved with web accessibility, I have met a lot of very interesting people. I wanted to learn more about them, and meet new people involved in one way or another with web accessibility.
- A11y Voices – Blog posts written by people with disabilities on their accessibility experiences.
- A11y Weekly – A weekly dose of web accessibility to help you bring it into your everyday work. Delivered to your inbox each Monday, curated by David A. Kennedy.
- Blackboard E-learn Magazine – Focusing on enabling access for people with disabilities, or special needs, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology.
- Digital A11y Great Accessibility Blogs Roundup – Peri brings in rich experience in Digital Accessibility; He has worked with various clients ranging from Travel & Hospitality, ecommerce, Entertainment, Banking & Finance. Presently, he works at Deque Software as Digital Accessibility Consultant slaying web accessibility & mobile accessibility challenges.
- eESSENTIAL Accessibility – Our solution then became the catalyst in helping educate purpose-driven organizations on the benefits of enhancing the digital customer experience for people with disabilities.
- Interactive Accessibility – Interactive Accessibility is recognized globally as a leader in accessibility and we leverage that to help you lead your industry. We offer customized Section 508, WCAG 2.0 and ADA compliance services to meet your needs.
- Law Office of Lainey Feingold – Lainey represents disabled people seeking full participation in all society has to offer. Her principal work is with the blind and visually impaired community on technology and information access issues, including web and mobile accessibility.
- Maxability – The goal of Maxability is to spread awareness on web accessibility. The information shared on Maxability largely help in minimizing lack of awareness of web accessibility and lack of web accessibility skills or knowledge.
- Jared Smith from WebAIM’s Great Accessibility Blog Roundup – I’ve become an RSS junkie. I’m amazed by the power that blogging and RSS feeds have brought to the accessibility field. I have Google Reader chock full of accessibility blogs and feeds. I have learned so much in the last year or so due to the vast contributions of the accessibility bloggers I have stumbled upon. I’m sure there are many more out there that I have yet to discover.
- Scott O’Hara – I like to build, and help others build accessible websites and applications. I write about web development, largely through the scope of accessibility.
- Spaced Out and Smiling – Spaced out and smiling is a site focused on being spaced out and happy written by me, Jamie Knight, and my plush sidekick Lion. Lion never leaves my side and we live with support in London. This websites tracks our move into independent living and some of the things we have found along the way.
- Terrill Thompson – Terrill Thompson is technology accessibility specialist with the University of Washington, web developer, musician, outdoor adventurer, and seeker of truth.
- WebAIM’s Blog – Our mission is to empower organizations to make their web content accessible to people with disabilities.
- WebAxe – blog and podcast on web accessibility.
Interesting Articles
E-Accessibility News Articles on Trello
March 2012
September 2013
February 2017
March 2017
May 2017
- Accessibility of digital course content: Insights and trends from Blackboard Ally (Blackboard Blog)
- ‘Glacial Progress’ on Digital Accessibility (Inside Higher Ed)
June 2017
September 2017
October 2017
- Student Engagement with E-Texts: What the Data Tell Us (EDUCAUSE)
- Braille versions of textbooks help blind college students succeed (MarketPlace)
November 2017
- How accessible is your website for the disabled? Consider doing an audit to find out (Poynter)
- An IT Accessibility Watchdog? (Inside Higher Ed)
December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
March 2018
- Potholes of Discrimination: A Post-CSUN Legal Update Wrap-Up (Law Office of Lainey Feingold)
- Promoting Accessibility in the Context of 21st-Century Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review)
April 2018
- Research: Online Courses Associated with Improved Retention, Access (Campus Technology)
- Recipe for Staying Ahead Of The Legal Curve: Bake Accessibility Into Your Organization (Law Office of Lainey Feingold)
- Technology Vendor Contracts and Accessibility: What Every Business Lawyer Should Know (Business Law Today)
- Improving Accessibility Often Falls to Faculty. Here’s What They Can Do (EdSurge)
- The Same, But Different: Breaking Down Accessibility, Universality, and Inclusion in Design (Adobe)
May 2018
- Making Progress on Course Content Accessibility (Campus Technology)
- Technology Can Address Digital Accessibility — to an Extent (Inside Higher Ed)
- Give Students More Options When They Have to Take Your Course (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Technology Can Address Digital Accessibility — to an Extent (Inside Higher Ed)
- Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide (Apple)
June 2018
- WCAG 2.1: What is Next for Accessibility Guidelines (Deque)
- Bringing People Together: The Secret to UC’s Accessibility Success (e-Learn Magazine)
July 2018
- Empathy and Collaboration: Accessibility in IT (EDUCAUSE)
- Benetech Secures Funding from the Cisco Foundation and General Motors Corporate Giving to Scale Inclusive Digital Math (Benetech)
- Website Access and Other ADA Title III Lawsuits Hit Record Numbers (ADA Title III)
- Building a Culture of Accessibility in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE)
August 2018
- Accessibility at the Enterprise Level: Searching for a Cohesive Voice within a Fractured Ecosystem (EDUCAUSE)
- How To Ask YouTubers To Caption Their Videos (Medium)
- Accessibility Rules the Conversation (Inside Higher Ed)
- Will blind people use Braille in the future? (PRI)
- Online Education Is a Disability Rights Issue (Inside Higher Ed)
- Overcoming Professors’ Skepticism About Digital Accessibility (Inside Higher Ed)
- Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine (NPR)
- A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1] (The Paciello Group)
September 2018
- UCLA must support students by providing more accessible options for textbooks (Daily Bruin)
- Students, Staff Chart New Course For Accessibility at Oberlin (The Oberlin Review)
- The Future of Digital Learning Collaboration (Inside Higher Ed)
- Universal Design for Learning and Digital Accessibility: Compatible Partners or a Conflicted Marriage?
- Touch screen accessibility for the visually impaired (CityNews)
- New Blackboard Ally caters to different learning preferences (The Alestle)
- A Rubric for Evaluating E-Learning Tools in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE)
- If You Want People to Listen, Stop Talking (EDUCAUSE)
- More UMD professors are improving their websites for students with disabilities (The DiamondBack)
- Online Course Accessibility to Benefit Everyone (EDUCAUSE Review)
- Texas universities, agencies given digital accessibility resources (EdScoop)
October 2018
- 2018 ADA Website Cases Surpass 2017 (3Play Media)
- Complexity: A Leader’s Framework for Understanding and Managing Change in Higher Education (EDUCAUSE)
- Conflicted Views of Technology: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes (Inside Higher Ed)
- 7 Things You Should Know About Technology Procurement for Accessibility (EDUCAUSE)
November 2018
- Accessibility & Procurement: What do we need to know? (WCET)
- 5 Tips for Supporting Inclusive and Open Pedagogies (EDUCAUSE)
- Q&A: Making Sense of Universal Design for Learning (Inside Higher Education)
- There’s already a blueprint for a more accessible internet. If only designers would learn it (Quartz)
- Apply UI, UX Design Principles to Give eLearning a Makeover (Learning Solutions)
- UDL Is the Key to Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design (Learning Solutions)
- With 71 Models, Defining Learning Styles Is a Challenge (Learning Solutions)
- Feds Prod Universities to Address Website Accessibility Complaints (Inside Higher Ed)
December 2018
- 50 Colleges Hit With ADA Lawsuits (Inside Higher Education)
- Keeping Students Engaged: the Role of Faculty in Student Retention (e-Learn Magazine)
- The Practical Value of Semantic Html (Bruce Lawson)
- 2018 ADA Web Accessibility Lawsuit Recap Report [Blog] (UsableNet)
- Microsoft makes real-time captions and translation standard in Office 365 PowerPoint (GeekWire)
- Hiring People With Disabilities Is Good Business (The New York Times)
January 2019
- Apple’s ‘Everyone Can Code’ courses are now available in braille (Computer World)
- Call for universities to improve support for disabled students (GOV.UK)
- Digital Accessibility Law and Regulation: Current Status and What to Do About It (EDUCAUSE)
- Enterprise IT Perspectives on the 2019 Top 10 IT Issues: The Growing Importance of Data (EDUCAUSE)
- First-Ever 24/7 Accessibility Customer Support Line for Clients’ Websites Launched by Bureau of Internet Accessibility (GlobeNewsWire)
- How to Run Higher Education Website Accessibility Projects (IWMW)
- Inclusive Instructional Design Conquers Technology Barriers (Learning Solutions)
- Why Isn’t DEI in the Top 10? (EDUCAUSE)
- Big Win for Web Accessibility In Domino’s Pizza Case (Lainey Feingold)
February 2019
- Teachers harness the power of electronic games to teach the visually impaired (Education Dive)
- How One Professor Made Her Assignments More Relevant (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Helping Institutions Reach Accessibility Goals (Inside Higher Ed)
- Expanding Opportunity through Access (Michigan State University)
- 7 Things You Should Know About Accessibility Policy (EDUCAUSE)
March 2019
- Universities Continue to Make Accessibility Improvements (MicroAssist)
- Building Online Courses Communally (Inside Higher Ed)
- Survey: Instructional Designers Drive Better Student Outcomes (Campus Technology)
- Perpetuating Harm (Winston the Third)
- Adapting Technology and Building an Accessibility Community at the University of California (EDUCAUSE)
April 2019
- 5 Ways to Promote Student Success in Online Learning (Campus Technology)
- Data-Driven IT Support Operations and Decision-Making: A Grassroots Effort (EDUCAUSE)
- Why Everyone Is Watching TV with Closed Captioning On These Days (Jason Kottke)
- Macmillan Earns Ebook Accessibility Certification (Inside Higher Ed)
- Four-Year Court Battle Between Deaf Advocates and Harvard Over Closed Captioning of Videos Proceeds to Discovery With Some Limitations (Seyfarth)
- Benetech, Macmillan Pioneer Effort to Make All Digital Books ‘Born Accessible’ (EdSurge)
- Top 5 Questions Asked in Accessibility Trainings (Deque)
May 2019
- ADA Lawsuit Prompts Institutional Change, Draws More Students (Inside Higher Ed)
- Get Managers on Board with Benefits of Accessible eLearning (Learning Solutions)
- Accessibility: A Snapshot of Success—Are You in the Picture? (Book Industry Study Group)
- How Microsoft is using AI to improve accessibility (Venture Beat)
- UConn’s first paraplegic nursing student inspires students and faculty (Fox61)
June 2019
- Student Panels: Non-traditional students and consistency in course navigation (PhilOnEdTech)
- “36 Seconds That Changed Everything: How The iPhone Learned To Talk” (Parallel)
August 2019
- Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations (EdSurge)
- Federal Court Rules in Favor of Blind Students (NFB)
- Blind University of Glasgow student ‘faced reading list discrimination’ (BBC)
September 2019
October 2019
November 2019
- PDF – the Print Devil’s Format? (Alistair McNaught)
- A Taxonomy of Inclusive Design: On Disclosure, Accessibility, and Inclusion (EDUCAUSE)
- When learning tools and resources are accessible to all, we all win (University of WA)
December 2019
- Harvard Ramping Up Captioning Efforts with NAD Settlement (Campus Technology)
- Accessible Instructional Materials Legislation Reintroduced in the House of Representatives (EDUCAUSE)
- The Biggest Movers Online (Inside Higher Ed)
- Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence (Quillette)
January 2020
- Butler U. app will guide visually-impaired students through campus (EdScoop)
- Digital Agility: Embracing a Holistic Approach to Digital Literacy in the Liberal Arts (Educause)
- Going Online With a Learning Disability (Inside Higher Ed)
February 2020
March 2020
- Creating an Accessible Digital Experience: Moving from Compliance to Sustainable Accessibility and Usability (EDUCAUSE)
- The COVID-19 online pivot (The Ed Techie)
- Accessible Technology Support for Faculty with Disabilities: Challenges and Barriers to Inclusivity (EDUCAUSE Review)
- COVID-19 Shutdown Forces Colleges to Ramp up Online Learning (Public Policy Institute of California)
April 2020
- 3 ways to stay connected when going remote (Blackboard Ally)
- On the hook: Website Developers may have ADA liability for inaccessible websites (Hunt and Huey)
- Insights Gained from Pandemic Response (EDUCAUSE Review)
- Most State Unemployment Websites Fail Mobile and Accessibility Tests (ITIF)
- Addressing Accessibility Concerns for Virtual Conferences — A Case Study (Bonteous)
- Don’t just design accessible products, build accessible experiences (UX Collective)
May 2020
November 2020
July 2021
Webinars / Online Events
Inside Higher Ed
- Building More On-Ramps to Education: Access for All, March 2018
- Making Sense of the Noise: Data Analytics to Inform Learning, May 2017
- Accessible, Inclusive Education: A Moral and Legal Imperative, April 2017
- Building Sustainable Online Programs: Perspectives from SNHU and Nebraska, April 2018
- New Strategies for Online Education, April 2018
- Promoting Student Success, April 2018
- Shifting Student Behavior: Interventions & Other Strategies to Help Colleges & Their Students, August 2018
- Digital Accessibility in Higher Education, May 2018
EDUCAUSE
- How a Free Online Class Saved a Program in Crisis and Raised New Questions About How Instructors Teach, September 2018
- In-Depth Design: Data-Driven Design Strategies to Support Learner Outcomes, October 2018
- Moving Toward Student Success: 2018 in Retrospect and 2019 in Prospect, December 2018
- Digital Transformation in Higher Ed: What Is It, and Why Should You Care?, November 2018
- In-Depth Design: Data-Driven Design Strategies to Support Learner Outcomes, October 2018
- Supporting Student Success at Community Colleges, October 2018
- Innovation at the Intersection of Technology and Teaching, September 2018
- Getting Comfortable with Thinking Outside the Box: Attracting and Retaining Students, September 2018
- The 2018 Top 10 IT Issues and the Role of the IT Leader, July 2018
- The Rise of the iGeneration and Its Impact on Higher Education, May 2018
- Gender Identity in Higher Education: How Technology Can Support (or Limit) Inclusiveness on Campus, April 2018