What is Web Accessibility Posts

5 Tips to Improve the Web for Hearing Disabilities

By Kathy Wahlbin on August 1, 2012

In a study conducted by Google in 2008, it was found that there are more deaf and hard of hearing users with access needs in the US than all of the Internet users in Spain!   How would the loss of your hearing affect you on the Internet? There are three types of auditory impairments, any of which can be caused by accident, illness, environment, heredity, aging:

Top 5 Tests for Web Accessibility

By Kathy Wahlbin on June 4, 2012

How do I test for accessibility?  In short, there are two ways to test the website’s user accessibility: human evaluation or digital evaluation tools. But the most successful approach is to use a combination of both. That’s because no single tool – no matter how expensive it is – can judge every component that affects accessibility.