It’s not news that traveling on airplanes is fraught with challenges for people with disabilities. In late 2021, Disability Advocate Engracia Figueroa died after an airline damaged her customized wheelchair. Yet, the ABRA Group’s Chief Strategy Officer Michael Swiatek believes that accessible travel is entering a golden age. ABRA has an ownership interest in the […]
Author: Thomas Logan
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) investigated the New College of Florida for not making its website and social media accessible to everyone. A public liberal arts institution, New College of Florida, said it settled with the OCR by saying it will correct the inaccessibility issues in the next eight months. […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) [PDF] on how to update the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to add specific requirements about web and mobile application and content accessibility. State and local governments would have to follow specific technical standards to meet […]
A Supreme Court case about the accessibility of hotel websites has understandably caught the attention of the disability and accessibility community. Here’s the short version. Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 lawsuits. Most of the lawsuits are against small hotels that Laufer claims have failed to indicate whether their rooms are accessible for people […]
When a major worldwide publication writes about accessible websites, we take notice. That’s exactly what happened when the Economist published Lawsuits over disabled Americans’ access to websites have surged. This article focuses on the large increase in lawsuits related to websites not complying with the ADA. It targets litigants who bring in many lawsuits on […]
New Kansas Accessibility Law Puts Heat on Plaintiffs
Jul 19, 2023A new Kansas law will allow businesses to sue plaintiffs and their counsel over “abusive” litigation related to websites not complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This law helps them recover defense fees and potentially punitive damages. The name of the law is the Act Against Abusive Website Access Litigation. It went into effect […]
Android 12 Universal Switch
Oct 23, 2022In this video, Equal Entry shows you how to set up Universal Switch for a device running Android 12 as an alternative to using the touch screen. Here are some of the useful gestures available to navigate your device with Universal Switch: Move to the previous item by turning the head left. Move to the […]
User Testing the Meta Quest 2 with Low Vision
Oct 17, 2022Virtual reality is a visual medium. Because of this, you may be surprised to learn that there are many low vision and blind people who enjoy virtual reality. One of those people is Shane Kehoe, a Community Talent Manager at Fable, who leads training teams and designs accessibility testing scenarios. To find out just how […]
In this article, my friends Ken Nakata from Converge Accessibility, Josef Pevsner from National Organization on Disability, and I come together to discuss and analyze the recent brief in the Bone v. UNC Health healthcare accessibility lawsuit. What Happened? In Bone v. University of North Carolina Health Care System, U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7937, 2022 WL […]
Photo credit: Andi Weiland | Boehringer Ingelheim, Societypix.org In this article, my friends Ken Nakata from Converge Accessibility, Josef Pevsner from National Organization on Disability, and I come together to discuss and analyze the recent brief in the Am. Council of the Blind of N.Y., Inc. v. City of New York accessible pedestrian signals lawsuit. […]