The Home Link Dilemma: Who Wins? Design or Accessibility!

The Home Link Dilemma: Who Wins? Design or Accessibility!

The idea for this article came when I was trying to figure out how to get to the homepage of a website. During my research, I navigated several pages deep, but when I attempted to return to the homepage, I couldn’t find the home link. I used the link list shortcut in the screen reader…

Input Type 'date' The Accessibility of HTML Date Picker

Input Type ‘date’: The Accessibility of HTML Date Picker

As a screen reader user, I always dread finding a date picker that is not accessible on the website where I need to fill out forms. Whether it is used to collect a birth date or when booking a ticket on air travel or hotel booking sites, often these date pickers are not accessible and…

ADA Digital accessibility Law Suits in 2023

ADA Digital accessibility Law Suits in 2023: Trend and Our Takeaways

Years pass by with the increased stress on digital accessibility. Every year, we do ask ourselves, Have we reached there? One good way to find the  answer to that question is to take a look at the ADA digital accessibility law suits and find out if they have come down. Yet again, www.usablenet.com has published…

Creating Accessible Experience with Landmarks

Creating Accessible Experience with Landmarks

The idea for this article sparked during a recent prep for a training program. I was collaborating with another accessibility professional on presentation slides when the topic of landmarks and their significance for screen reader users came up. My co-speaker pointedly asked, “Raghav, I’ve never noticed you emphasizing the importance of landmarks or using them…

Unraveling the Diversity of Digital Accessibility Job Titles

Unraveling the Diversity of Digital Accessibility Job Titles

Digital accessibility is an immense subject, and jobs within the accessibility space have seen a tremendous uptick in the last few years. When I initially started in web accessibility, there werehardly any jobs available, and the one or two openings had a lot of competition. The rise in awareness and active pursuit of accessible services…

WCAG SC 3.3.7 Redundant Entry (Level A)
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Understanding WCAG SC 3.3.7 Redundant Entry (Level A)

The goal of this success criterion is to make the processes where repeated steps are found easier by: For example, a checkout flow in an e-commerce site asks shipping address and billing address to be entered. If both the addresses are the same, the site can provide a “My shipping address is the same as…