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"When you design to include people with disabilities, you not only make their lives easier, but you enhance the user experience for everyone else who will use your product or service or visit your website or app. It gives you the opportunity to reach a huge, mostly untapped, market of highly loyal consumers who are ready to engage with inclusive products and services to the point that they will advocate for businesses willing to make the effort." -Maxwell Ivey, "The Blind Blogger", one of our latest HearSay Shorts guests. Access the full short here: https://lnkd.in/ePWB2nUJ Video Description: Maxwell Ivey, Accessibility Entrepreneur, and Mariella Paulino-Peralta, MPRCC, CPACC Paulino, Senior Advocacy & Social Media Marketing Manager at AudioEye in conversation over a dark green background for HearSay Shorts.

Calling all designers! Our new free course, "Accessible Design Practices" launches today in our AudioEyeQ learning platform. Join AudioEye Director of Brand and Design Sojin Rank to learn the skills, frameworks, and best practices to implement digital accessibility in your design work, ensuring the experiences you create are inclusive of everyone. Click here to sign up for this and other free accessibility courses: https://lnkd.in/dcuWTUWb Alt Text: "Accessible Design Practices: Unleash the full potential of your content with AudioEyeQ's new free course, Accessible Design Practices!" featuring Sojin Rank speaking on a video screen. A button below links to more information at AudioEye.com/Learn.

Healthcare providers have a responsibility to make their digital platforms accessible for everyone. With 1.3 billion people worldwide living with a disability, this is more important than ever. We’ve created a comprehensive guide to digital accessibility in healthcare, covering legal requirements, best practices, and how to test your content for accessibility. Go to https://lnkd.in/eTTf9Fwm to learn more!   #HealthcareAccessibility #DigitalInclusion #AudioEye #EqualAccess

In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (#NDEAM), we must acknowledge that some employers miss the full potential people with disabilities bring to the table. Too often, assumptions limit opportunities, overshadowing creativity and problem-solving skills. A true commitment to inclusion involves consulting with the disability community, learning from their collective knowledge, and recognizing the value they add to various roles. That’s why we are honored to work alongside the A11iance community for our core products, ensuring that lived experiences are central to our approach to digital accessibility. Together, we're building a more inclusive digital world and a world that works for all. Learn more about our work with the community and how we uncover more accessibility issues with expert human testing at https://lnkd.in/ebfv42v7. Alt text: “Employers could do a better job questioning their own assumptions about what disabled people can do, particularly our ability to bring creativity and problem-solving skills to the job. I would also like to see them making a greater effort to consult with the disability community(s) to learn what collective knowledge and skills disabled people have gained in general and in performing the jobs they want filling.” - Carley Mullin, A11iance Member #NDEAM #DisabilityEmployment #DigitalInclusion #TeamAudioEye

Sophie Willson, our newest Implementation Developer, is already offering great advice for those new to accessibility! If you’re just starting out, pick a small, real-world problem you’ve faced—like a form that’s difficult to submit. Then, apply accessibility guidelines to improve it. This approach simplifies the task and highlights how impactful these changes can be on usability. Sophie reminds us that accessibility is about making everyday experiences better for everyone, one small step at a time! To learn more about how AudioEye empowers developers to create accessible digital experiences, go to https://lnkd.in/eriZjtTU. Video Description: "New Hire Spotlight: Sophie Wilson, Implementation Developer at AudioEye | What advice would you have for a developer that is trying to incorporate accessibility?" [Clip of Sophie answering the question.] Transcript: If you're starting trying to like get into accessibility or conceptualize why it might be important or impactful start with maybe something that has also been challenging for you, like a form that's really hard to submit look at what's the accessibility guidelines for that, make those changes and then try submitting it again. I think you can see how much that impacts the usability process down the line. So just like one, starting small and then also just going through the practice of seeing the impact of actually making those accessibility changes and how useful it is to just have just those guidelines really clearly laid out for you. #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #Software

Attract your audience with visuals that represent the population at large. That means including images with people across spectrums of age, race, gender, and ability. For example: If 30% of your audience is over the age of 65, 30% of the people featured in your ad creative should be over the age of 65. The same principle applies to other characteristics like race, gender, and disability. 1 in 4 adults in the United States experience a disability. When designing inclusive campaign materials, don’t forget the largest minority group in America. Learn more of our best practices in inclusive marketing with our 2024 Holiday Retail Guide: https://lnkd.in/esUHy-Kf Alt text: Illustration of five diverse people in winter clothing standing in a snowy forest. One person has a prosthetic leg, one wears sunglasses, one uses a wheelchair, and another has a hearing aid. They all appear cheerful, with arms raised amid snow-covered trees and a starry night sky.

Did you know that the average web page has 37 accessibility errors? For businesses, this translates to lost sales, negative reviews, and potential legal risks. You can turn this challenge into an opportunity with us at AudioEye! We offer a complete digital accessibility solution that combines: -AI Automation & Monitoring: Continuously track and fix accessibility issues before they impact your customers. -Expert Audits: Our team conducts thorough expert audits, collaborating with individuals with disabilities using assistive technologies to identify hidden challenges. -Custom Code Solutions: Instead of just a checklist, we provide tailored fixes for your most complex accessibility issues. -Developer Tools: Equip your team to build accessible digital experiences from the ground up, ensuring compliance and enhancing user experience. -Transform accessibility from a compliance requirement into a strategic advantage for your business and let’s work together to open your digital doors to a community of loyal customers! Ready to make accessibility a priority? Let’s connect! Visit us at https://lnkd.in/eZjVPZ8i to learn more. #DigitalAccessibility #Inclusion #WebDevelopment Transcript: 37. That's the average number of accessibility errors on a typical web page. For businesses, this lack of accessibility doesn't just mean missed sales, lost customers, or poor reviews. It also exposes them to the risk of lawsuits and monetary damages. So, where do you start? Introducing, AudioEye—a complete solution for digital accessibility. Combining the latest AI automation technology with real user testing, powerful developer tools, and industry-leading legal protection. Our easy-to-install digital accessibility platform helps you scale accessibility for your organization by continuously monitoring your site's accessibility and automatically fixing many issues before they impact your customers. However, automation alone cannot find or fix every accessibility issue, no matter what some accessibility vendors claim. Some issues can only be identified or solved by people, which is why we offer expert audits for your most important web pages. Our team works with the industry's largest group of people with disabilities to verify each automated fix and uncover additional accessibility issues, using the same assistive technologies as your customers. And we don't just give you a long list of things to fix alone. Instead, our team of certified accessibility experts write custom code-based fixes for your trickiest accessibility challenges. Finally, our developer tools help your teams build for accessibility by testing new code against the latest accessibility standards so you can ship accessible, compliant digital experiences from the beginning. Let us show you how AudioEye can help open your digital doors to a community of loyal customers, turning a compliance checkbox into a competitive advantage. Descriptive Transcripts: https://aeurl.xyz/1h5moB

Today is Bullying Prevention Awareness Day, highlighting an issue that disproportionately affects people with disabilities. Children with disabilities are significantly more likely to face bullying, with research showing that this happens at all levels of education. Such experiences can lead to long-term emotional damage, creating barriers to socialization and impacting mental health even into adulthood. AudioEye is dedicated to eradicating every barrier to digital access and by fostering empathy, accessibility, and equal access online, we can work towards building a society where everyone is safe and valued. Let’s join forces to #EndBullying and support a future of inclusivity and understanding. Do your parts and learn more about the A11iance community at https://lnkd.in/eXcbtANc ?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organicsocial and get your website tested for accessibility today at AudioEye.com! #BullyingPrevention #BullyingPreventionAwarenessDay #DisabilityAwareness #InclusionMatters #A11y Alt text: Struggling to make friends or to fit it: "I dealt with a lot of bullying in school [because of my disability]. Because of this, I struggled to make friends or to fit in. I would say this is the greater problem since I was able to find a job even without a college education, but the damage that the other kids inflicted on me emotionally is something I have to live with for the rest of my life. I find it extremely difficult to socialize even now, as an adult, 15+ years later."- Desiree Oudinot" 

Congratulations to Terah Ratheheart on joining AudioEye as a Software Engineer. We're excited to embark on this journey together. Welcome to the team! Alt Text: 'Welcome Terah!' over a gradient purple and turquoise background. A black-and-white photo of Terah, an accessibility icon, and the AudioEye logo. #SoftwareEngineer #WelcomeToTheTeam #AudioEye #NewAdventure

Inaccessible user experiences often get released because companies try to check the digital accessibility box after a product is made. Gerard Cohen, Digital Accessibility Leader at Atlassian, shares his experiences incorporating accessible design from the get-go. Hint: it’s exactly what you expect. The greatest successes for accessible user experiences came when accessibility practices were top of mind at the beginning of a project, not the end. Check out our episode to learn more! Find the episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eBb7ParT Spotify: https://lnkd.in/evtCw7s4 Apple: https://lnkd.in/ePpuS6jt Video Description: Video Description: Gerard Cohen, Digital Accessibility Lead at Atlassian, and Mike Paciello, Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye, look at the camera on a dark purple background with “HearSay: Guest: Gerard Cohen." Transcript: When you wait till the end, a lot of times the people that were there at the beginning—whether they were project managers or designers—have already moved on to different projects. Those decisions have already been made and approved. In order to say, "We didn't hit the goal here; we missed a very important factor," it's hard to make the decision to roll back. This is often why you see experiences that may not be the most accessible actually make it out into the real world.