Access all areas: Global Accessibility Awareness Day

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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!

If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to read a poorly designed website, you’re not alone—in an analysis of one million websites, 98.1% of homepages had at least one Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Level 2 compliance failure.?

Today, we celebrate the 13th GAAD, which aims to “get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than one billion people with disabilities/impairments.”

It’s a topic that affects the roughly 27% of adults who may require assistive technologies to access online content.?

Coming up in this edition:

• In the know: How Knowbility reaches its target audience to champion digital accessibility
• Open access: Why does accessibility matter in web design?
• Chalk it up to accessibility: Why we need accessible edtech

How Knowbility reaches its target audience to champion digital accessibility

Knowbility is a nonprofit based in Austin, Texas that’s on a mission to create an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities.?

They provide a range of services and programs that aim to raise awareness, provide education, and offer technical accessibility assistance, such as usability testing, training, and design workshops.?

Knowbility has successfully employed a content marketing strategy to reach its target audience with its messages, which includes a blog with free accessibility tips and resources and a learning center with accessibility courses.

Finally, Knowbility walks the talk with an accessible website, demonstrating the importance of practicing what you preach.

Why is accessibility important in web design?

To help raise awareness for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we asked Literal Humans’ very own lead designer Nate Smith to take over our blog and share his tips and best practices for inclusive web design.?

Nate has designed hundreds of websites and is passionate about accessibility—discover his tips for making your website more accessible.

Podcast: Empowering Minds: Accessibility in EdTech

With education resources being stretched ever-thinner, edtech plays a crucial role in education and has the power to make education more inclusive.?

We spoke to Helene Lassen N?rlem, co-founder of Tiimo, a planner app that empowers neurodivergent teens, on the Tech Can’t Save Us podcast to get the low-down on accessibility in edtech.

Tune in to hear her story of founding Tiimo and how it’s reshaping education for neurodivergent students.