While the ADA can trace its origin back to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508—the amendment that concerns electronic and information technologies—it did not create binding guidelines for accessibility as related to technology until 1998. Of course, the legislators who originally drafted the legislation could not have foreseen th
My career, like most people’s, has taken some interesting twists and turns along the way, but one thing has always stayed at the forefront of my efforts—making information available to everyone, everywhere. When I started studying information science as an undergrad, “accessibility” was a word that existed in my vocabulary in terms o
