Awareness of the digital accessibility divide: A silver lining of The COVID-19 crisis?

Awareness of the digital accessibility divide: A silver lining of The COVID-19 crisis?

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Most of us have adapted quickly -- perhaps seamlessly -- to increased reliance on digital devices for the day-to-day processes of life and business. For many people with disabilities however, it’s a very different picture. Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so for a few minutes let’s put ourselves in the place of a person with a visual, hearing, motor or cognitive disability. With many physical places of business now closed, essential activities like banking, shopping and working must be solely conducted online or at great personal peril. The problem is that 70 percent of website applications or web content… [Continue Reading]

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