Month: August 2021

In the ways I monitor accessibility, it is clear that there is a greater awareness of the topic and more effort being put into making technology accessible. This is good. Yet, the vast majority of accessibility policies still fail at what for me is one of the most fundamental needs. Specifically what is a user supposed to do when an accessibility issue is encountered? I’m using the term “accessibility policy” here as a broad definition.…

Yesterday I read about the team at WebAIM releasing a version of their popular Wave toolbar as an Edge browser extension. I’m very familiar with the tool so wanted to see how it behaved in Edge. On the page with details about the extension, there is a section talking about how to use the tool. I noticed that it said you could press ctrl+shift+u, so after installing for Edge that’s what I dit. I pressed…