The updated regulation uses international standards that focus on results, not specific technologies. The U.S. Access Board's current draft update to the regulation governing website accessibility ...

General Services Administration Administrator Robin Carnahan testifies before a House Oversight and Accountability Committee oversight hearing on Nov. 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin ...

Website accessibility is a legal requirement under Section 508 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When sites have major inaccessible components, they may be viewed as discriminatory ...

A year ago, many industry and government executives were looking ahead to June 25, 2001, as a "panic day," said Terry Weaver, director of the Center for IT Accommodation at the General Services ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins testifies before a Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearings on "Veterans at the Forefront, Focusing on the future at VA," on Capitol Hill in Washington, ...

On June 21, new standards take effect requiring federal agencies to make their Web pages and electronic technology accessible to people with disabilities. But don't expect accessibility to be achieved ...

The General Services Administration released what it’s calling a new baseline for government tech accessibility last week, and the results are not looking great. “The government as a whole is not ...

Research has found that only 3% of the web is considered accessible, meaning that disabled users can’t properly access most of the content online. Having an accessible website isn’t just good practice ...