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Airline Website Accessibility: Booking and Seat Selection While Blind

A booking can go smoothly right up to checkout, then collapse at seat maps, unreadable fields, and unlabeled checkboxes. Here are the checkout barriers to check for on your own ...

Web Accessibility, Mobile Apps, User Experience

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Airline Website Accessibility: Comparing Flight Results while Blind

The results page is where travelers spend the most time, and it's where reading and comparing flights with a screen reader turns into a slog. Here is what to check on your own ...

Web Accessibility, Mobile Apps, User Experience

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Mobile Ticketing Accessibility: Buying Haunted House Tickets with a Screen Reader

Around this time every year, I get that Halloween itch for a night of spooks, scares, and hair-raising fun. My family and I settled on a haunted house tour as our annual Halloween ...

Mobile Apps, User Experience

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Restaurant App Accessibility: A Screen Reader Experience When Menus Won’t Scroll

I recently attended a birthday celebration at a restaurant for a family member and wanted to familiarize myself with the menu before arriving at the restaurant. I was able to find ...

Mobile Apps, User Experience, Restaurants

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Mobile App Accessibility Guidelines: Best Practices for EAA Compliance

As mobile usage continues to dominate digital engagement, ensuring your app is accessible is a legal and user experience imperative. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) applies ...

Mobile Apps, European Accessibility Act

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Mobile App Accessibility: The 6-Step Checklist

Mobile app accessibility generally refers to making native applications—programs installed directly on your device that you don't need to access through a web browser—accessible ...

Web Accessibility, Mobile Apps

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Airline Booking: Navigating an Inaccessible Experience

Today’s blog will be about trying to help someone purchase airline tickets for a last-minute trip. The accessibility of the site in question was possibly the worst that I have ...

Web Accessibility, Mobile Apps, User Experience

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Mobile App Accessibility: What Blind Customers Want You to Know

In most of my previous posts, I have spoken about accessibility on desktop websites. Today, I will be writing about common accessibility problems on mobile applications. The ...

Mobile Apps, WCAG 2.1, User Experience

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Mobile App Accessibility

Originally written on Nov 21, 2017. Content was updated in October 2023. Even today, mobile app accessibility continues to be a challenge. Users with disabilities often face ...

Web Accessibility, Mobile Apps

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