Justice Department Advances Proposed Rule to Strengthen Web and Mobile App Access for People with Disabilities Tuesday, July 25, 2023 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs The Justice Department sent to the Federal Register for publication a notice of proposed rulemaking under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that aims to improve web and… Read More »
Vispero/TPGi Listed in AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community Couple of news items for screen reader news, both from Vispero, the leader with JAWS Kiosk software. From PRnewswire — Vispero/TPGi Software now available to 18 U.S. Intelligence Agencies in AWS Marketplace JAWS Kiosk AWS Marketplace CLEARWATER, Fla., June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Vispero® and TPGi®, global leaders in accessibility software and services, today announced the availability… Read More »
ADA Regulations Update June 2023 June 15, 2023 — New updated dates for US Access Board NPRMs for EV and POS. Also, ANSI has just released their new EV standards, which include ADA considerations. Thanks to Steve Taylor with TaylorPOS for reminding us of the NPRM dates. Accessibility Guidelines for Self-Service Transaction Machines This rulemaking would amend the Architectural and… Read More »
Healthcare Kiosk Demo Published on Healthcareittoday.com – Author John Lynn In Brief Nicky Shaw US Operations Manager at Storm Interface does the demo demonstration of accessibility device as part of check-in kiosk Inability to use the touchscreen is the benefit Kiosk has an Storm Audiopad installed on kiosk by Kiosk Innovations with screenreader software by Vispero (JAWS Kiosk) Audio and Tactility are the key features… Read More »
ADA Kiosks Legal Action Kiosks This page on legal actions in self-service and related is a running log with personal commentary on legal, privacy and patent situations which impact unattended self-service. We keep track of legal news that affects the unattended self-service market. One of the best articles to monitor is Kiosk Accessibility: The Law is Paying Attention by Lainey… Read More »
Amazon Whole Foods Self-Service We shop at Whole Foods from time to time. Part of our Costco-WholeFoods equation. Seemed like a good time to “check out” the SCO there and the return lockers. Notes on the SCO Modified unit from NCR (same as Walmart) No cash (unlike Walmart) We didn’t have a chance to test while in wheelchair… Read More »
NRF Swipe Fee Reform Small business is by far the hardest hit since they are the lowest volume. Rates went up 26% in the last 12 months and 180% over the last decade. Monopolies do not exist for the benefit of consumers and lower inflation. Visa and Mastercard, which control 80 percent of the U.S. credit card market,… Read More »
ANSI EV Standards and Codes Draft Released New York, March 31, 2023: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released today for public review and comment a draft of the Roadmap of Standards and Codes for Electric Vehicles at Scale developed by the Institute’s Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP). The roadmap identifies key safety, performance, and interoperability issues; notes relevant published and in-development standards; and… Read More »
Section 508 Report 2023 This report looks at CFO Act Agencies and their progress or lack of in web conformance. In Brief Summary PDFs are still a problem with only 30% of pdfs accessible 14% of agencies do not test intranet pages Only 2 agencies consider themselves “Measured” in all five maturity areas (e.g. FCC and SEC) Conforming… Read More »
WCAG 2.2 Checklist Noted on W3C website – What’s New in WCAG 2.2 – Interesting inputs from “personas” and navigating a website. Typical “disabilities” include repetitive stress injury, low contrast for seniors. Repetitive stress injury persona using speech recognition software, hand tremors, supermarket user with cognitive disorder. Thanks to William Goren. For an introduction to Web Content Accessibility… Read More »
