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Designing an e-commerce website should start with making it accessible. Avoid these common errors so you can build an accessible, compliant online storefront.

The growth of e-commerce penetration is rising. As retailers rush to keep up with online shopping, web accessibility needs to take a front seat.

In our second installment of the Making Accessibility Visible video series, AudioEye testers Sarah and Chris use screen readers to test page headings while shopping online. In this video, they test both accessible and inaccessible versions of the same page.

AudioEye is launching a new video series that shows how people who are blind use the internet with screen readers.

Learn how to make a website accessible for people who are deaf with AudioEye's guide. Achieve certified ADA/WCAG compliance today with AudioEye.

AudioEye Partner Network member Dealer.com explains why they trust AudioEye to improve accessibility for its more than 12,000 websites.

Sarah Kinneer, a Solutions Engineer at AudioEye, believes that accessibility is the right thing to do. Striving for accessibility takes on significance for her. She has faced these barriers herself as someone who is neurodiverse.

AudioEye is now a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Skip navigation links are a great way to help users find content they want to see on a web page. Here is a guide to properly setting up skip links on your site.

A U.S. appeals court recently ruled that some websites don’t have to be accessible to people with disabilities. See how this decision affects businesses like yours.

Making your website compliant has countless benefits, including improving your SEO. Here's why digital accessibility is a cornerstone of an optimized site.

Learn more about AudioEye’s industry-leading auto remediations. Discover how the technology works and understand its strengths and limitations.

Ensuring that your website is accessible to all can be a daunting challenge, but a little-known tax credit can help take the sting out of your expenditure.

The Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) comes into force on January 1, 2021, requiring all public-sector organizations in Ontario and companies with more than 50 employees in Ontario to comply with the best practices for digital accessibility laid out in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Is your online business ready?

The education industry is facing another challenge as the school year begins: a skyrocketing number of digital accessibility lawsuits. In July and the first week of August, we have tracked 35 federal lawsuits targeting the education industry filed in U.S. Federal District Court. To put that in perspective, there were just two federal lawsuits the entire first half of 2020. That’s a 1,750% increase, with new cases filed almost every day. If your institution doesn’t have a strong position on digital accessibility, there could be trouble ahead.

A lawsuit filed against Gimlet Media, a leading digital media company, recently garnered plenty of attention both within and beyond the website accessibility community. This lawsuit, among others, elevates the importance of digital accessibility being a core capability of any modern digital platform, especially as companies are required to comply with legislation such as Title III of the ADA and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act.

The world of the web evolves at a frenetic pace, and it’s often possible—or even advisable—for web teams to play a little fast and loose if it means getting to market ahead of the competition. When it comes to accessibility, you really do need to get it right, or risk facing lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a host of new state laws. But whose job is it to ensure ADA compliance?

While you might think that opting for a ready-made e-commerce platform like Shopify immediately liberates you from worrying about the accessibility of your website, that may not be the case. In fact, in speaking with Shopify users, we’ve identified five common misconceptions about digital accessibility requirements and how far you’re covered when you choose to work with an e-commerce provider.