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On May 20, 2021, Treehouse joins in the celebration of the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day, or GAAD. Source: ucsd.edu According to the Global Accessibility Awareness Day website, The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning...
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On February 24, 2021, Zoom announced it was making live transcription available on free accounts. Prior to this announcement, Zoom’s captions were available only to paid users. If users dependent on captions couldn’t afford a paid account, they were excluded...
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The third WCAG Guideline, Adaptable, is part of the Perceivable principle and covers adapting to the different needs of users by allowing content to be received in multiple ways. WCAG 1.3: Use Semantic HTML One of the most important ways...
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The second WCAG Guideline, Time-based Media, is part of the Perceivable principle and covers providing alternatives for audio and video content. Accessible Podcasts A text transcript can make audio-only content like a podcast accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users, as...
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The first WCAG Guideline, Text Alternatives, is part of the Perceivable principle. The guideline states Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols,...
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Throughout my career as a web design and development educator, I’ve noticed a consistent lack of attention paid to Accessibility principles in both college and bootcamp curriculum. The results of a 2018 WebAIM global survey of web accessibility practitioners was...
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In early October, some of the Treehouse team traveled to Orlando, Florida for the Grace Hopper Celebration. The conference is the largest event in the world for women in tech. It was a massive event! Thousands of women from all...
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