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July 07, 2014 Written by NetSphere Category: User Experience
Solving accessibility compliance issues for online video One of the greatest qualities of the web is its free and open nature. For the nearly 2.5 billion people that are connected to the Internet today, gaining access to a bulk of the world’s information is just a mouse click away. Of those 2.5 billion individuals, however, approximately 15 percent of them or nearly 375 million people have a disability that could complicate the task of accessing online information.     But thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the...

April 02, 2014 Written by NetSphere Category: User Experience
4 guiding principles for providing online accessibility When the Americans with Disabilities Act was set into motion, lawmakers were making a passionate push to ensure that those with disabilities were protected against discrimination and afforded equal access to public entities and accommodations. At that same time, the Internet was still a burgeoning idea. Its future reach and significance was unknown, meaning accessibility issues for those with was disabilities hadn’t been taken into consideration.  Today, however, the U.S. Department of Justice is working diligently to create new regulations that...