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Disabled talks about problems , non-disabled repairs them: Thats the image we have when we look on many accessibility stages. Conferences, discussions, talks - the non-disabled are dominating. That gives a wrong and old-style image of disabled. I will explain the reasons and how to solve the problem.

Your podcast should be as accessible as possible to reach a great audience. How to do that? You will learn in that episode.

It was probably to be expected that at some point even an established company would switch to the dark side. The internationally known company Level Access has bought the overlay provider Userway for several million dollars. Such large acquisitions are actually familiar from companies of other sizes.

The test procedure should be uniform. In order to do justice to different submissions, the exam can also have a modular structure, with individual modules applying specifically to websites or apps or concepts.

I speak to web developer and digital accessibility activist Anne Bovelett.

Accessible documents can be created with both Microsoft Office and LibreOffice. Both Office packages can also save accessible, i.e. tagged, PDFs. In this post I would like to compare the individual functions.

Undesirable effects in web applications and videos are relatively common and sometimes unavoidable. To my knowledge, trigger warnings do not yet appear in digital accessibility. I would like to discuss here when they can make sense and how they can be implemented.

This is an overiew on disabilities, assistive technologies and accessibility.

Standards like WCAG cover the technical requirements of blind people for digital user interfaces quite well. However, technical conformity does not have to mean that an application is comfortable to use for blind people. In many cases, applications that are formally accessible but difficult to use tend to deter blind people.

In my opinion, error management does not belong in accessibility, but applies to all users. It is rather tragic that we have had digital formulas for almost 30 years and yet every day we find forms where the basic patterns of good error management are not applied.

The conception is an important phase in the development of an accessible website. Lets take a look on what we should consider in this phase.

In this auto-generated podcast we describe the Phenomenon of blindness.

The success of digital accessibility is heavily based on Digitization.

Digital accessibility projects are failing because of the same factors. In this episode I want to show how they can be sucessful.

It's no secret that in many cases accessibility hasn't made any progress for years and, more often than not, has gone backwards. While the few experts in technical discourses tangle, accessibility falls by the wayside.

In this interview we talk about barriers for visually impaired in the digital field.

In the future the personal properties in the OS or the browser will become more important then the accessibility of the GUI.

In today's accessibility it's important to have data on the actual state. A maturity model can help to measure how you are in accessibility and how to improve in the future.

Digital accessibility mostly seems to be a task for design and dvelopment. But it's getting more and more important taht also other persons like the HR is getting knoledge of accessibility and disability.

We always talk about semantic HTML. But CSS can also play an important role. Let's talk about that in this episode.

Aging people are one of the biggest groups who can benefit from accessibility and especially digital accessibility. But is age-friendly and accessible the same thing? Let's talk about that question in this episode.

Today digital accessibility is often operated untstructured. That makes it very difficult to measure progress and development over time. Let's take a look on how to measure accessibility and why this is important.

Problems are often attributed to the provider of an application. In doing so, we lose sight of the fact that a problem can also come from the person who operates our application. Why this distinction is important is the topic of this episode.

Motor disabled are dependent on digital accessibility. In this episode you can learn which assistive technologies they use and which improvements they need.

Many sighted use Jaws for accessibility testing. I will explain why this is not a good idea and why you should prefer NVDA.