Last updated: 5 May 2026 This audit was performed against WCAG 2.1 AA. The companion videos and information on performing an accessibility test are available from the Accessibility Testing project page. In part one, we looked at setting up our environment for accessibility testing, including configuring the accessibility testing spreadsheet. We scoped the homepage of … Continue reading “Performing an accessibility test”
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The web is inherently accessible
Originally posted 7 February 2021. Updated 27 May 2026. It all started when I built the HTML Exposed tool which removes CSS and JS from a webpage, leaving plain HTML. I built it as a sarcastic response to a developer who changed his website to require visitors to disable JavaScript before they could view the … Continue reading “The web is inherently accessible”
Making streaming video inclusive
Updated: 9 May 2022 for AccessU This blog article supplements the talk Making Streaming Video Inclusive, created with my colleagues Carolina Crespo and Charu Pandhi of TPGi and delivered at CSUN 2022 and AccessU 2022. The idea for this talk came from an extensive client audit we participated in: Testing a streaming video application across … Continue reading “Making streaming video inclusive”
4 web server rules you need today
This post uses Apache examples but I’ve also provided links to Nginx documentation as these two web servers account for about two-thirds of websites at the time of this post. The concepts are similar between web servers with variance in syntax and location of web server rules. Not sure which web server your site is … Continue reading “4 web server rules you need today”
What do you mean by disabled?
For much of the 20th century and into the 21st, society largely dictated what “disabled” meant. We were told we were disabled; that we were broken; that we didn’t matter because we weren’t whole. “Disabled” in this context is clearly used as an adjective to describe that state of a person: You’re disabled. Indeed, if … Continue reading “What do you mean by disabled?”