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Shedding Light on Black Friday: Maximize Your E-commerce Success!
We dive into the excitement of the upcoming holiday season. Today, we want to shine a spotlight on Black Friday, it's shift towards online sales, and the often-neglected aspect of digital accessibility. As enterprises aggressively compete for their share of the online...
Celebrating the ADA Anniversary: The Importance of Digital Accessibility and Compliance for Businesses and Organizations.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a landmark legislation signed into law on July 26, 1990. The ADA is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools,...
How Technology Can Improve Mental Health Services
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can occur after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. It is estimated that around 10% of people who share a traumatic event will develop PTSD. This can include veterans who have been in...
Thanks, #GAAD ChatGPT Provides Equal Access
In 2023, the significance of digital accessibility for enterprises reached unprecedented levels. As technology advanced and digital tools became more integral to business operations, ensuring universal access to digital platforms became essential. ChatGPT, by OpenAI,...
The Importance of May for Your Business – unlocking digital opportunities by investing in accessibility
The Importance of May for Your Business – unlocking digital opportunities by investing in accessibility May is a busy month for awareness, with several important initiatives raising awareness about issues affecting different groups. This year, May is designated as...
How To Improve Your Digital Presence During an Economic Recession
How To Improve Your Digital Presence During an Economic Recession There is no doubt that we are in an era where technological development is constantly permeating every aspect of our culture. Lately, the buzzwords in the tech world include things like DE&I,...
Allyable Launches All-in-One A11y360™ Digital Accessibility Hub with End-to-End Resources for Enterprises and Compliance Professionals
Allyable Launches All-in-One A11y360™ Digital Accessibility Hub with End-to-End Resources for Enterprises and Compliance Professionals. Feb 23, 2023 (PRNewswire via COMTEX) -- PR Newswire PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23, 2023 Allyable introduces the A11y360™ Digital...
Now, Enterprise Compliance and Development Teams can Learn Digital Accessibility Best Practices On-the-Fly from Industry Experts with A11yAcademy™ Built-in Training
A11yAcademy™ by Allyable puts the collective expertise of digital accessibility specialists at the fingertips of enterprise/SME compliance and development teams to streamline project management, improve ESG, and reduce the costs and complexity of meeting international...
The Importance of Digital Accessibility for ESG Scoring
In the corporate and investment worlds, ESG scoring is a trending topic, along with digital accessibility. This article addresses the significance of ESG and accessibility—and presents a compelling case for why enterprise-level companies should focus on incorporating...
9 Ways to Improve Inclusive Hiring in Your Company
Inclusive hiring is more than a Human Resources concern. At Allyable, we believe that employee diversity should be baked into every organization’s culture throughout all departments, from the top down. What are some specific ways that companies can become more...
Diversity Inclusion in the Hiring Process
Over the past decade, an increasing number of enterprises and organizations have been prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) criteria in the workplace, including in their hiring and promotion process. According to a 2020 analysis by Gartner, the demand...
Allyable and Verbit Partner to Accelerate AI-based Digital Accessibility Compliance for Enterprises and SMEs Worldwide
Two global companies that innovate smart artificial intelligence (AI) digital enterprise technology—Verbit, the global AI transcription leader, and Allyable, a pioneer in AI digital accessibility automation—join forces to streamline the process of meeting content...
Improve Your Business with Supplier Diversity
A growing number of enterprises in the United States and internationA11y are making a proactive effort to incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within their values and cultures. Beyond hiring practices, one very important element of inclusion is ensuring...
Supplier diversity program best practices
In the U.S., all federal contractors must adhere to established federal regulations or small business subcontracting rules, while state and local government contractors are also required to comply with specific, pre-defined supplier diversity requirements. Meanwhile,...
The Importance of Accessibility and Inclusivity in the Buyer’s Journey
Allyable’s CEO David Adi was interviewed on the Pathmonk Presents Podcast about how digital accessibility impacts online user experience and his passion for making the internet world more inclusive for customers with disabilities. In March 2022, our CEO and co-founder...
Brands are Losing Billions Due to Lack of Digital Accessibility
Surprisingly, quite a lot of brands and companies incur significant financial losses, and they don’t even realize that! And, the surprising fact is that the reason - lack of websites’ digital accessibility. Several acts and laws established certain web standards of...
Who decides if a website is accessible?
The only people who can decide if your site is available are your website users. Though, it doesn’t specificA11y mean that you have no word while doing the accessibility check. Availability testing is a multiple-level process that requires an evaluation from different...
Should You Test Mobile Apps for Accessibility?
Surprisingly, mobile apps require availability checks as much as websites or program platforms. EspeciA11y now, due to the whole world quarantine, when mobile apps became an excellent outlet from boredom. That’s why it is so important to make your apps as available as...
Website Requirements for Sеction 508 Compliance
On some sites that are designed for people with special needs, you can see the work of section 508 of the rehabilitation act. What is it, and why is it so important? This section requires all data and information on government websites to be approachable, especiA11y...
What is Image Alt Text?
As the name suggests, Alt is an alternative description of the image that the user sees if the image itself does not appear for some reason. The description is written in the HTML code of the image as an alt text attribute (what kind of words are displayed in the...
