White House Doubles Down On Accessibility
by Shaun Heasley | February 2, 2021
President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden stand at the North Portico of The White House after Biden s inauguration on Jan. 20. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/TNS)
Online and in the briefing room, the Biden administration says it is working to prioritize accessibility for people with disabilities.
With the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, the White House website got a revamp and that included a push to increase accessibility.
The new site prominently features an accessibility statement committing to “ensure all functionality and all content is accessible to all Americans.” That means an “ongoing” effort to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, a standard for web accessibility, the statement says.
Accessibility
General
enewspf.com strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. enewspf.com has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.
Accessibility on enewspf.com
enewspf.com makes available the UserWay Website Accessibility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows enewspf.com to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).
Enabling the Accessibility Menu
White House Website Now Has Gone Dark After Rolling Out New Update
The White House website at WhiteHouse.gov now joins the laundry-list of official websites with a dark mode to help ease its viewers to read. This update is a part of the new update rollout, following Donald Trump s last day at the office and Joe Biden-Kamala Harris new administration.
When you open the website, two small toggle buttons will appear on your left. One is for high contrast, allowing you to read easily at night without contracting too much to your screen, and the other is to activate larger fonts on the website.
White House, dark mode: Biden admin refreshes presidency’s website, vows accessibility
WhiteHouse.gov, the official website for all presidential actions and efforts, is among the first things to be changed up under the freshly inaugurated President Biden. A fashionable dark mode appeared, as well as a large text toggle for straining eyes, and the webmaster has committed to making the whole site conform to the latest accessibility guidelines.
The look isn’t so very different from the previous administration’s site they’re both fairly modern and minimal experiences, with big photos up front and tidy lists of priorities and announcements once you drill down into a category.
masks in public accommodations.
As the year wore on, the plaintiffs’ bar got back to work and filed a number of new lawsuits in the last quarter of 2020. As in prior years, we are completing our tally of lawsuits filed in federal courts and will know whether the end-of-year surge made up for the decrease in activity over the summer.
No one could have predicted what we have endured as a country in 2020. But one thing is fairly certain: 2021 will be a very busy year for ADA Title III lawsuits. If they remain on current pace, we expect they will likely equal or exceed the 2019 count.