Create beautiful emails that reach the largest audience possible. Below are approaches to creating accessible, styled emails. Regardless of the approach you take, make sure you ensure the color contrast of your text and background colors is above 4.5:1. Avoid…
Create Accessible LinkedIn Content
LinkedIn makes it easy to create posts that are accessible to everyone, but there are some things you should consider when you create a post. Ensure sufficient contrast Add alternative text to images Caption video content Do not rely on…
Content’s Role in Accessibility and Usability
Summary A number of challenges exist to including writing quality as part of accessibility. Despite this, the accessibility of the content itself is critical to creating a successful end-to-end experience for users. The goal of this post is to acknowledge…
Creating Accessible Facebook Posts
When we post to Facebook, we need to consider several things to ensure the posts are accessible to everyone: Ensure sufficient contrast Add alternative text to images Caption video content Do not rely on color alone to convey information Avoid…
What I learned piloting the Accessible Escape Room surprised me
It wasn’t that we need to revise a few puzzles, smooth out rough edges or make the technology more reliable. We need to improve all those things but I learned something else while piloting the Accessible Escape Room that I didn’t expect,…
Accessible Church Services
Accessible Community is starting a pilot program to help churches provide accessible church services. The premise: Even small churches with limited budgets can successfully include someone with a disability who wants to join their service through a combination of technology…
Small Business and Community Organization Accessibility Survey
Accessible Community believes that efforts to make our communities more accessible must include people with disabilities in the process. As a start, we are collecting information from people with disabilities as well as their family members and caretakers about interactions…
5 Easy Steps to Increase Your Small Business Customer Base
American consumers with disabilities represent 200 billion dollars in discretionary spending and unless your business is accessible, you are missing these potential customers. Disabilities vary between individuals and the best way to engage these individuals differs based on your business…
Does High Contrast Improve Likes and Shares?
Overview As an accessibility professional, I have come across a number of anecdotes demonstrating that good accessibility leads to a better experience for everyone; however solid research studies are difficult and expensive to perform. So when I was listening to…
Quick Accessibility Fix 1: Remove Objects Blocking Accessible Spaces
One of the fastest and least expensive fixes to improve wheelchair accessibility in facilities is to remove objects blocking accessible pathways and entrances. Buildings, particularly newer ones, are built to be wheelchair accessible but then owners and customers place objects…