Information and Communication

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Instead Of These Ableist Words, Use Inclusive Language At Work

Stop using disability as a negative metaphor at work (and everywhere else).

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Why Every Business Needs Powerful Storytelling To Grow

Storytelling is a powerful business tool and a skill that every business building a powerful and lasting brand should master.

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Overreliance on Overlays is Counter to Enculturation of Accessibility

As an organization representing the blind, new technology almost always presents us with promise and peril. Few companies come to the blind to understand our needs before developing their products and advertising them as being responsive to us. Nothing about us without us seems never to have occurred to them.

IrelandÕs first socially assistive AI robot 'Stevie II' from robotics engineers at Trinity College Dublin, with Brendan Crean, who helped trial the robot through the charity ALONE, during a special demonstration at the Science Gallery in Dublin. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)

The tech industry’s accessibility report card for 2021

In spite of all the advancements we’ve seen in tech, the industry as a whole has consistently neglected people with disabilities.

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Accessibility Tip of the Week: Copying and pasting accessible content

Rather than typing directly into our web tools, many of us create web content using Microsoft Word or Google Docs. This workflow simplifies editing the content, but some formatting can be lost when migrating the content to the web.

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Accessibility offers the Ultimate User Experience

Today is International Persons with Disabilities Day, which provides an opportunity to further reflect on IBM’s contributions to accessibility and inclusivity when it comes to the ever-evolving world of technology and design.

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Why You Need to Do User Testing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

Why you need to conduct user testing with deaf and hard of hearing people, and also describes why their needs are often overlooked. Further, Meryl speaks to how to test captions and transcripts for maximum accessibility.

Kate Kalcevich is the Head of Services at Fable, a leading accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities.

How To Hire For Digital Accessibility Roles

Accessibility must be a permanent program within organizations, much like security. In this article, Kate Kalcevich shares tips on which skills and questions to keep in mind when hiring for digital accessibility roles.

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WCAG and Accessibility: What Is A Statement of Partial Conformance?

What happens if a website aggregates content from other websites that don’t follow WCAG? What if a site contains an app, plugin, or widget that has accessibility issues? What if the site operates a forum, and some user-generated content doesn’t conform with the guidelines?

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The Basics Of Accessibility In Social Media

Consider your latest social media post. Does it have an image? Maybe it has a video. This is great content for people who are sighted, but what about someone who is blind, partially sighted or deaf?