You Cannot Activate, Turn On, or Enable Accessibility: Automation Doesn’t Make a Website Accessible

You cannot turn on accessibility; you can’t activate accessibility; you cannot enable accessibility. Accessibility is not available through automation. The only way to make your website or other digital assets accessible is by manually finding accessibility issues and then manually fixing those accessibility issues. So what we want to do is make our website inherently … Read more

Accessibe vs. Userway: Which Overlay Widget is Best?

Behind me on the white board I have two watches drawn. And one watch is under street corner A and the other watch is under what is labeled street corner B. Now both watches are purported to be gold. Which one is better? They’re both fake. So that’s what it’s like when you’re debating whether … Read more

Accessibility Overlay Widgets are Fugazis

The other day I thought of the perfect term for website accessibility overlays and that is fugazi. So overlays amount to fugazi accessibility. And what does fugazi mean? Well it’s a slang term and it means a few different things. But, generally, it means something is fake or artificial or has no substance, it’s a … Read more

State Farm Doesn’t Use an Overlay Widget, AccessiBe Features Their Logo Anyway

Screen recording the home page of AccessiBe.com. What I want to focus in on is the bottom of the page that is currently displayed and it says, trusted by 158,988 small businesses and industry leaders alike. And then there are logos that are showing on this carousel and there’s Johnson’s, there’s Panasonic, there’s Tupperware, there’s … Read more

Accessibility Plugins Don’t Make Your Website ADA Compliant / WCAG Conformant

There are plugins that can be helpful in making your website accessible. And some can even add benefit as options- having accessibility options available on your website, but they don’t make your website accessible or what many people are looking, for ADA compliant. Although we don’t know what ADA compliance exactly is when it comes … Read more