2018 - A Year in Review
The office has been pretty quiet the last week and a half. Many on the Echidna team have been taking a well-deserved break and enjoying the holidays…
Echidna is Going Back to School
One of our key foundational principles here at Digital Echidna is a desire to always be learning and continuously improve. One of the best ways to…
J-Say Starts to Bridge Speech and Text Gap for Visually Impaired Computer Control
There are certain pieces of software that are just fascinating to me. A computer that speaks through text-to-speech applications provides worlds of…
The Google Phone (gPhone) Cometh ...
Is the wait finally over for the Google mobile phone? Leaked only a few days ago - Google is doing it again, and making us rethink how we access…
Accessible Voting - Sometimes X Can't Always Mark the Spot
As a regular follower of politics who has never missed an opportunity to vote, I am interested in the accessibility of the voting process: from…
Teaching People that it Should be Hard to Make Life Inaccessible
"It should be hard to make something inaccessible." That's really it, isn't it? You wouldn't build structures or create content that excludes people…
The 5 Most Common Consent Compliance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
Guest Author: Scotty Hagen Time and time again, I stumble into the same scenario when meeting with a client: most think they’ve got consent figured…
5 Key Takeaways from Our Loyalty Rewards Webinar
Our Community Manager, Chris Craigman, co-hosted a webinar with Elaine Sloboda from Smile.io to discuss the benefits of loyalty programs, and what to…
We Shouldn’t Need to be Told Accessibility is Just Good Business
Focusing on accessibility isn’t something we should need to be told to do -- after all, it’s just good business. I guess you could look at the recent…