Website for up-to-date information on accessibility

[kestrell]

Looking at this page
Best Fonts to Use for Website Accessibility by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility
https://www.boia.org/blog/best-fonts-to-use-for-website-accessibility
which will also answer your questions about specific fonts.
Their blog
https://www.boia.org/blog#main-content
has an amazing amount of up-to-date information, including
this post
Enhanced Braille Support Now Available for Google Docs
https://www.boia.org/blog/enhanced-braille-support-now-available-for-google-docs

Of course I've subscribed to their blog.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Here's a round of applause for a brilliant name!

I appreciate the combination of human and automated testing. I'm surprised that their testers are JAWS-only.

[kestrell]

Re: only using Jaws for testing: this is just my guess but, since they are a government agency, they may be restricted to using Jaws either because the Federal government has a contract with the company that produces Jaws and/or NVDA is an open source software and thus highly suspect.

[jesse_the_k]

It's a private company w a clever name, not any kind of *.gov agency.

They flack their GSA contract among others at https://www.boia.org/about

[kestrell]

I am embarassed that I completely missed that, so thank you for bringing that to my attention.On the one hand, I am getting pretty hardcore that any large business or agency should have at least one in-house person who just deals with accessibility, instead of referring compliance and complaints to customer service, who often don't know much if anything about accessibility. In particular, I am getting pretty disgusted with the fact that my insurance company denies assistive technology requests, including smart plugs for wheelchair users, but doesn't have a single person knowledgeable about accessibility.
On the other hand, companies like this are better than nothing, I guess, maybe, and I like the no-nonsense tone of the Bureau.
Also: part of me imagines them as the Lone Gunmen from X-Files, the Lone Gunmen of accessibility. I could totally spin the continuing inaccessibility of information and services as a conspiracy to pursuade pwd that they are disempowered. I need to go now before I begin writing the fanfic.

[jesse_the_k]

I love the Lone Gunmen image, but I'm betting it's closer to a confederacy of certified public accountants. (A group of old runners is a wheeze, a group of young runners is a whiz. What do you think is the appropriate generic noun for CPAs?)

[kestrell]

A whooz? Definitely not a whyz (pronounced "wize").