What Automated Testing Misses: Six Accessibility Problems That Pass a Scan
Your site can pass an accessibility scan and still lose customers. A scan reads your code. It cannot tell you whether a visitor can finish an important task, like making a...
Presentations
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Talks by the Equal Entry team at conferences and events, with recordings and recaps. Topics range from accessibility law to inclusive design and AI.
Creating Accessible iOS Apps: An Action Plan
It can be overwhelming getting started with accessibility in Apple iOS. The operating system has so many features, tools, and APIs. This is where the action plan will be helpful....
Mapping the Disability Tech Market with Perkins School for the Blind
The Howe Innovation Center is part of Perkins School for the Blind. The center is named for Samuel Gridley Howe, the founding director of Perkins. He was a visionary for his time...
Automatic Captions: Our Experiments and Best Practices
The number one rule for high-quality accessible captioning is readability. After all, if nobody can read your captions, then none of the other rules matter. People put so much...
Here’s What Happened at the First A11yTokyo
Accessibility Tokyo known as A11yTokyo is now active! A11yTokyo is a collaboration between Equal Entry and Infoaxia. Although the first Meetup was online, the monthly Meetup will...
Marketing in Accessibility
Marketing is a fun topic that’s not talked about a lot in the accessibility space. Often, marketing teams are focused on the product, the code, and making it accessible. They...
Assistive Technology for Kids with Multiple Disabilities
When we think about accessible video games, most of us might think about adaptations such as the Xbox adaptive controller. However, this leaves out a large population of people who...
How You Can Future-Proof and Differentiate Your Business
Just when we thought the pandemic is the biggest thing we have to deal with, then comes the Great Resignation, because we don’t have enough labor. And now there’s talk about...
How to Determine If a Company Knows About Digital Accessibility
An organization held a training session for more than 400 attendees. The purpose of the training was to educate attendees on digital accessibility. In the audience were a few...
Deaf Tech: Travel Through Time from Past to Future | ID24 Recap
Inclusive Design 24 (ID24) is a free 24-hour online event for the global community for sharing knowledge and ideas in inclusive design. Deaf technology and accessibility tools have...
Why Winn-Dixie Doesn’t Matter Recap
In April of 2021, the eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals released its decision in Gil v. Winn-Dixie. Many advocates proclaimed it was a major blow to disability rights and some...
How to Create Web Products for People with Disabilities? Le Wagon Presentation Recap
Last year, I had the opportunity to give a presentation at Le Wagon Tokyo, a coding school focused on preparing people for new jobs in the information technology industry. I was...
Professional Testers with Disabilities | Accessibility Chicago Meetup Recap
On June 9, 2020, Chicago Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design hosted a Meetup entitled Professional Testers with Disabilities. Presenter Heather Burns, an Accessibility...
A Future Date – Digital Accessibility Legal Update
Accessibility advocates from around the world came together last week to hold A Future Date, a virtual conference hosted on YouTube of curated sessions from cancelled major...
The Best Way to Create Audio Description: Equal Entry Webinar Recap
On November 21, 2019, I gave a webinar for 3Play Media on behalf of Equal Entry, titled “The Best Way to Create Audio Description.” There were over 130 attendees who learned about...
#a11yTOConf Presentation – Why Wait? Let’s Make Virtual Reality Accessible Today!
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, Equal Entry Owner Thomas Logan presented “Why Wait? Let’s Make Virtual Reality Accessible Today!” at #a11yTOConf 2018. The premise of the talk was...
Inclusive Design Presentation – Let’s Make Maps Widely Accessible
Over the last two decades there have been numerous demonstrations of accessible digital map interfaces for people with disabilities. However, these implementations typically only...
Build Your Accessibility Evaluation Toolkit: Presentation Recap
On May 17, 2018, Equal Entry CEO Thomas Logan was a featured presenter at NYC Digital Inclusion & Accessibility 2018. The one-day conference for City employees was co-hosted by...
Presentation for the New York City Bar Association: A Recap
I presented to the Disability Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association on April 19th, 2018. The Disability Law Committee was interested in gaining an understanding of...
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, Gives Presentation at Princeton University
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently delivered a presentation at Princeton University about APS technology. APS stands for Accessible Pedestrian Signal Device. You may have...
Thoughts on One-Handed Typing
How does typing with one hand affect someone’s experience on the modern web? Sam Berman, Accessibility Consultant at Equal Entry, shares his thoughts on the matter in this short...
Watch Equal Entry’s Presentation on Software Developer Kits
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently gave a presentation in Chicago titled, “Software Development Kits and Accessibility.” Logan’s presentation is now available online with...
Second Annual Accessibility Camp in NYC is a Success
New York City’s second accessibility camp was hosted at NYU MAGNET2 Metrotech Center on Saturday September 17, 2016. Focusing on users with different disabilities, sessions covered...
Watch Thomas Logan’s Presentation on Multimedia and Accessibility
Thomas Logan, Equal Entry CEO, recently gave a presentation at thoughtbot titled “Multimedia and Accessibility.” The presentation focused on accessibility techniques to improve...