The accessibility product market is flush with new overlays, each making newer, bolder, more bogus claims than the last, all while basically providing poor “fixes” and a UI widget that does nothing more than what users with disabilities already have on their computers.
Category: Managing Accessibility
What would an ethical overlay look like?
Accessibility overlays have existed on the market since at least around 2004. Companies such as Readspeaker offered products that displayed a widget on customers’ websites that were best described as “add-on assistive technologies”. The primary feature offered by such products was the ability to read the page content aloud to a website’s users.
Automated Testing’s Strength Comes From Efficiency
Today, via Facebook’s “Memories” feature, my good friend and mentor Mike Paciello shared this tweet from Steve Faulkner:
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Restaurant website accessibility falls short at a critical time
As I write this, 97% of the US population is under stay-at-home orders, which means that unless a person is an essential employee or performing an essential function, they must stay home. All 50 states are in a State of Emergency. The economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has been massive. Consumer spending is down and unemployment is the highest it has been since the Great Depression. Among the hardest hit businesses are restaurants and bars. In March, the National Restaurant Association predicted between 5 and 7 million jobs would be lost. That number represents around 40% of the jobs in that sector. The downturn will most certainly mean the closure of massive numbers of restaurants and bars. Industry magazine QSR estimates that 11% of restaurants will shut their doors in April alone.
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Tenon Makes The Latka 100: The Fastest Growing SaaS Companies in 2019
Tenon’s SaaS side of the business is one of the fastest growing and most efficient companies.
Since 2014 we’ve been focused on helping businesses large and small to improve their Web Accessibility. We’re excited to share that out of 3,500 SaaS companies last year, we were in the Latka top 5% in terms of revenue growth rate. This is a clear sign that our product continues to be loved as we work to scale.
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