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Month: February 2018
Many great opportunities are available in the digital accessibility field.
- Technical Writer for Web Developer Software at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
- UI Client Accessibility—Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
- Director of Accessibility at EVERFI in Washington, DC.
- Digital Accessibility Specialist at Thomson Reuters in Eagan, MN.
- Accessibility Director at AbilityNet in London, UK.
- Accessibility Engineer at Adobe in San Francisco, CA.
- iOS Accessibility Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA.
- Web Accessibility Consultant at Level Access in San Francisco, CA.
- Director Accessibility Services at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT.
- UI Client Accessibility – Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
- Digital Accessibility Specialist (contract) at Kaiser Permanente in Pleasanton, CA.
- Screen Reader Accessibility Auditor at Accessible360 (remote, I believe).
- Web Accessibility Tester at JP Morgan Chase in San Francisco, CA.
- Digital Accessibility Engineer (contract) at Collabera in Boston, MA.
- Accessibility Specialist wanted at Pearson in Boston or remote.
- Sr. Front End Engineer (with WCAG, Ruby skills) at Scribd in San Francisco, CA.
- Accessibility Specialist (engineer) at edX in Cambridge, MA.
- Product Manager at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
- Accessibility QA Tester (screen reader user) at Apertus Partners in Mountain View, CA.
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Most of use are aware of the color contrast guideline in WCAG 2.0 AA which states:
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum): The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following: (Level AA)
This can be a big problem for websites when the color scheme uses the brand colors which do not meet the above requirement. This can be especially troublesome for medium orange and green tones.
A technique to meet this guideline is G174:
Providing a control with a sufficient contrast ratio that allows users to switch to a presentation that uses sufficient contrast
You may want (or need) to consider this technique for your website, at least temporarily. The control for this option should be in a global nav bar or settings (if available). A longer term goal is to correct your brand’s colors so that it meets the 4.5:1 color contrast requirement.
Here are some examples of websites that have a high contrast option available (the control is in the top horizontal bar in all examples).
