ARC Product Owner Full-Time  //  Remote Primary Function As a Product Owner for the ARC Platform, you will help guide and shape tools used by accessibility professionals around the world to improve the accessibility of their own sites and applications. In addition, you’ll work with TPGi’s own accessibility professionals to improve the methods and tooling they use to record and track the results of our own client engagements. The ideal candidate will have a background in or around Software as a Service (SaaS), ideally with knowledge of digital accessibility, as a Product Owner or Busi ..read more

In this article, we survey recent developments defining the legal landscape for US organizations’ digital accessibility obligations in 2024. As we explain below, lawsuits are accelerating, and in a major recent development, the Attorney General signed a final version of regulations for web content and mobile app accessibility under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Evolving legal requirements for accessibility compliance in 2024 The legal landscape for digital accessibility in the United States is governed by a number of different pieces of state and Federal legislation in ..read more

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On April 8 2024, the United States Attorney General signed a final rule providing requirements for digital accessibility under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This is a historic and significant event in the global timeline of digital accessibility. For the first time since the ADA was enacted in 1990, technical requirements exist for applying the ADA to web content and mobile apps. This post summarizes the rule’s requirements and limitations, and some thoughts on its impact on the world of accessibility. The rule in a nutshell The rule applies to organizations in the U.S ..read more

Australia’s Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) is an important piece of legislation which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and has extended to cover both digital and physical business operations. In this article, we review the fundamentals of the DDA, how it applies to digital accessibility, and some key provisions to be aware of. What is DDA? Disability Discrimination Act Fundamentals The Disability Discrimination Act of 1992 prohibits discrimination in a number of areas of public life, including: Employment Education Housing Sports Accommodation The provision ..read more

Continuing our series of articles on how to test the new Success Criteria (SC) in WCAG 2.2. Detailed conformance and testing information can also be found in KnowledgeBase, a digital accessibility repository available through TPGi’s ARC Platform. KnowledgeBase is maintained and consistently updated by our experts, and can be accessed by anyone with an ARC Essentials or Enterprise tier subscription. Contact us to learn more about KnowledgeBase or the ARC Platform. Success Criterion 2.4.11: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) requires that interactive controls are not entirely obscured by author-create ..read more

The European Union’s (EU) European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a central piece of legislation for defining requirements for the accessibility of private sector products and services, including for Ireland’s 640,000+ disabled individuals (1 in 7 Irish citizens). Now adopted into Irish law, the EAA is expected to play a central role in defining digital accessibility requirements in the country for many years to come. In this article, we provide an overview of the EAA in Ireland, the law’s key provisions concerning digital accessibility, and how it relates to the broader landscape of Irish accessi ..read more

This article is based on the first part of a presentation delivered by the author and Hans Hillen at CSUN 2024 Conference. It includes content that was not used in the conference presentation due to time constraints. You can also access all the slides used in the presentation. AI Definition AI Technologies Overlays and AI Automatic Captioning AI Generated Alt Text The focus of this article is to explore the role of AI in enhancing web accessibility. Inevitably, this will involve a certain amount of discussion of potentialities – what AI could do – but I especially want to look at the here a ..read more

Organized by California State University Northridge’s Center on Disabilities, the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference (or CSUN for short) has been running for 39 years, and is the biggest annual in-person conference on accessibility and assistive technology. Usually taking place in March in California, the conference has always been a highlight of the year for TPGi, and 2024’s edition was no different. Many of our team travelled to Anaheim from near and far (including the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) to attend, present talks, network, socialize, share with and learn from the access ..read more

Continuing our series of articles on how to test the new Success Criteria (SC) in WCAG 2.2. Detailed conformance and testing information can also be found in KnowledgeBase, a digital accessibility repository available through TPGi’s ARC Platform. KnowledgeBase is maintained and consistently updated by our experts, and can be accessed by anyone with an ARC Essentials or Enterprise tier subscription. Contact us to learn more about KnowledgeBase or the ARC Platform. Success Criterion 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum) is concerned with cognitive function tests that are used to authenticate ..read more